(NOTE: This story was originally posted to CRN.com July 24.)

As more businesses cozy up to the Internet of Things, they're seeing the importance of quickly capturing and acting on the intelligence IoT applications gather.

(NOTE: This story was originally posted to CRN.com July 19.)

As businesses move toward the Internet of Things, wearables will have a big role in customers' IoT strategies in such vertical markets as manufacturing and health care, solution providers say.

Artificial intelligence is on the rise in business, and on track to grow to a $16 billion market within five years, with a combined annual growth rate of nearly 63 percent from 2016 to 2022, according to research firm Markets and Markets.