The document discusses the need for a new IoT analytics platform to help organizations accelerate time-to-value from IoT projects and enable timely actions. It introduces the VIA IoT Analytics Platform from Vitria, which aims to address this need by providing a unified platform for fast data ingestion, open data lakes, advanced analytics across streaming, historical, predictive and prescriptive models, and tools to enable rapid application development and insights. The platform is designed to empower operations managers to improve processes and business outcomes through smarter, faster analytics and actions using IoT data.