C3.ai Named a Leader in Industrial IoT Software Platforms

C3 AI Suite receives highest score in current offering category

REDWOOD CITY, CA – November 14, 2019 – C3.ai, a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation, today announced that independent analyst firm Forrester Research has named the company a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Industrial IoT Software Platforms, Q4 2019.

C3.ai received the highest score in the current offering category and achieved the maximum possible score in 16 criteria, including analytics and data‚ connectivity, platform deployment options, security, and platform differentiation.

C3.ai provides an integrated software platform (C3 AI Suite) that enables organizations to rapidly design, develop, deploy and operate enterprise-scale AI applications to realize significant business benefits. C3.ai’s pre-built applications, configurable for a variety of industries, include predictive maintenance, fraud detection, sensor network health, supply network optimization, energy management, anti-money laundering, and customer engagement.

What Forrester Says:

C3.ai delivers IoT analytics solutions at scale. “C3.ai tightly integrates with all major public cloud providers, extending the native capabilities of those platforms to deliver some of the largest IoT deployments we have seen in oil and gas, utilities, defense, and more…Customers consistently speak highly of the nature and depth of their relationship with the company.”

The Wave report also notes that,“C3.ai’s strength remains its analytics prowess…The model-driven type system lies at the heart of C3.ai’s solution. Powerful and flexible, it’s C3.ai’s biggest differentiator…”

Our Product Capabilities

For the criteria where C3.ai received the highest score possible, our capabilities include:

ANALYTICS AND DATA: The C3 AI Suite advanced data analytics provide unmatched support for ingestion and processing of high-frequency time series data for predictive applications. The C3 AI Suite allows data scientists to use all their favorite AI and machine learning tools to rapidly develop machine learning features and train predictive models, and seamlessly deploy these models into production applications.

PLATFORM DIFFERENTIATION: C3 AI Suite’s model-driven architecture and low-code development capabilities speed time to value for all AI application development and deployment. The model-driven abstraction layer provides a consistent, business-specific and flexible model to represent all data, entities, and algorithms, and presents a common interface to all users (programmers, data scientists, data engineers, business analysts).

MANAGEMENT CONSOLE: The C3 AI Suite’s robust management capabilities include visual development tools, easy-to-use management and user interfaces, all for easy deployment and maintenance.

SECURITY: C3 AI Suite’s comprehensive security measures have been subjected to rigorous external audits. C3.ai’s cybersecurity programs are managed using NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) best practices and established IT standards. C3.ai holds several cybersecurity certifications such as SOC2 Type II and complies with HIPAA and GDPR requirements.