Internet of things platform-as-a-service specialist C3.ai revealed June 23 that Paris-based energy provider ENGIE has selected the company’s platform and applications as the tech foundation for its global enterprise-wide transformation plan.

C3.ai will provide ENGIE with the necessary power‚ scalability and flexibility to apply machine-learning and advanced real-time analytics to very large petabyte-scale data sets‚ C3.ai founder‚ CEO and Chairman Tom Siebel told eWEEK.

When everything gets up and running‚ this will become one of the largest—if not the largest—IoT management deployments in the world‚ Siebel said. It expects to process about a petabyte of data per day and possibly more‚ he said.

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