Platform as a service (PAAS) and Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software platforms for connecting people, services and devices via communication channels, namely, the internet and other wireless, wired, and optical media communication networks; Platform as a service (PAAS) and Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software platforms, and their associated software development tools, software development libraries, configuration files, and data files, that enable searching, monitoring, analyzing, reporting, and alerting on data produced by intelligent devices, industrial processes, business system records, weather information, publicly- available and private event data, location data, and equipment data; Platform as a service (PAAS) and Software as a service (SaaS) featuring computer software platforms for use in developing programs in a computer programming language; Platform as a service (PAAS) and Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software platforms for use in connection with creating an integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications for connecting people, services and devices via communication channels, namely, the internet and other wireless, wired, and optical media communication networks; Application service provider, namely, hosting, managing, developing, and maintaining applications for connecting people, services and devices via communication channels, namely, the internet and other wireless, wired, and optical media communication networks; technical support services, namely, troubleshooting of computer software problems; updating of computer software; maintenance of computer software, namely, maintenance and error correction services for computer software; software consultation and implementation services for software and applications for connecting people, services and devices via communication channels, namely, the internet and other wireless, wired, and optical media communication networks