For IBM customers, the Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to improve operations, rapidly connect devices and to lower costs. This is why IBM Maximo Asset Management now sits neatly in the Watson IoT portfolio. There are many business cases out there today for linking IoT and Maximo, IBM are not, however, diverting from their core value statements. Maximo is still about understanding asset availability, preventing failures, maximising resources, increasing reliability, understanding inventory needs and costs, and plant safety. Check out the key investment areas for 2016 and beyond.