Abstract: An apparatus comprises an Internet of Things (IoT) platform configuration and deployment system accessible to a plurality of user devices over at least one network. The IoT platform configuration and deployment system comprises a configuration and deployment controller, and a multi-tiered adaptive service catalog associated with the controller. The configuration and deployment controller is configured to receive requirements input for respective ones of a plurality of requested IoT platforms from one or more of the user devices and to determine corresponding sets of resources for implementation of the respective IoT platforms based at least in part on one or more services selected from the multi-tiered adaptive service catalog. The IoT platforms are deployed utilizing the respective sets of resources determined by the configuration and deployment controller. Each of the deployed IoT platforms is illustratively configured to interact with a different set of IoT devices.

Abstract: Information processing techniques are disclosed for managing knowledge across a distributed entity. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A database of information is maintained representing knowledge attributable to at least one distributed entity. An interface is provided for presenting at least a portion of the information maintained in the database and for presenting one or more responses to one or more queries to the database. At least a portion of the one or more responses is indicative of at least one of an expansion, a transfer and a leveraging of the knowledge attributable to the at least one distributed entity.