by Angela Guess

A new press release states, “Avnet today introduced a unique service to jumpstart partners’ abilities to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for their customers. Available to the channel only through Avnet’s Technology Solutions business, U.S. and Canada partners will now have access to relayr’s 5-4-3 Innovation Acceleration process. Partners can use this service to dramatically shorten their customers’ development time for IoT solutions, transforming an idea into a functioning IoT prototype in as little as five weeks.”

The release goes on, “This service offering from Avnet and relayr helps partners manage and accelerate their customers’ digital transformation with end-to-end support in three focused stages: Kickstart: Lasting 5 days, a hands-on workshop enables customers to identify three leading ideas and create an implementation roadmap for IoT solutions specific to their enterprise. The workshops can be led by IoT experts from relayr or certified partners. Accelerate: Over 4 weeks, the selected idea from the Kickstart phase is rapidly developed and tested to create a working prototype. IoT experts from Avnet and relayr are available to help partners throughout the prototyping process. Traction: Spanning 3 months, the prototype is fully tested, giving the customer a real-life use case to provide critical insights for mass production and rollout planning, and accelerate their time to market.”

Colin Blair, vice president of data analytics and IoT solutions at Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, commented, “relayr’s 5-4-3 Innovation Acceleration process addresses the greatest challenge many of our partners are facing – how to help customers initiate an IoT project… Our partners will be able to use this service to fast track IoT solutions – within one business quarter – that can easily be integrated with their customers’ existing technology environments. Working together, Avnet and relayr will give partners the foundation they need to help their customers create IoT solutions from simple experimentation to full-scale deployments.”

Read more at Business Wire.

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