Check Out What Your Vendor Has To Offer

Another step in picking a specific IoT platform is seeing if that vendor – whether its AWS or Microsoft – has any particular training, competencies or other resources to offer.

For instance, AWS just launched a new IoT competency for partners to differentiate themselves as specialists in the IoT market. Sturdy Networks is an AWS IoT competency partner, and also took advantage of AWS training and certifications, said Tarhan.

Microsoft has a similar incentive program for partners formerly dubbed the IoT Red Carpet program, in which eligible partners can access training and marketing materials. New Signature holds a silver-level competency from Microsoft in data analytics and a gold-level competency in cloud platform and cloud productivity.