Cumulocity


Cumulocity GmbH is a German software company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It develops the Cumulocity software as a service, primarily for industrial Internet of Things applications.

History

Cumulocity GmbH was founded in 2012 as a spin-off from Nokia Siemens Networks. In 2017, Software AG acquired the company. In January 2025, the management team completed a management buyout to reacquire the company, backed by private equity firms Schroders Capital, Verso Capital, and Avedon.

Products

Cumulocity is a software as a service industrial Internet of Things platform. It has developed products for device connectivity, data management, and application development on cloud, on-premises, edge, and hybrid environments. It supports streaming analytics via the Apama engine.
The platform supports connectivity with standard IIoT protocols, including MQTT, OMA LWM2M, LPWAN, OPC Unified Architecture, Modbus, and CAN bus. Remote and bulk IoT device management functions include provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and software or firmware updates for device fleets.
For edge computing, Cumulocity contributes to the open-source project thin-edge.io and provides its own product Cumulocity Edge.
Cumulocity has adapted an AIoT platform strategy that powers the smart connected product and manufacturing revolution as part of the emergence of Industrial AI. With the adaption of the AIoT strategy Cumulocity has introduced an end to end "Data OPS" offering which transforms and enriches raw industrial data into AI-ready to use data. This approach follows the Medaillon Architecture which is a data design pattern used to logically organize data in a Lakehouse, with the goal of incrementally and progressively improve the structure and quality of data as it flows through each layer of the architecture.

Industry recognition

Cumulocity has been recognized by multiple organizations and rankings: