What is Matter?
Matter is a new set of products that are transforming the way that businesses create, manage, and share documents. The products include tools to streamline document processing, collaboration tools to connect teams and workflow automation to simplify complex tasks. With Matter, businesses have the power to revolutionize their workflows and improve processes.
Products Announced
Matter has announced several products that are now available for businesses to use:
- Matter Financials: A document processing platform that streamlines the financial document management process and automates invoicing, accounting, and more.
- Matter Insights: A suite of analytics tools that provide real-time insights into document activity and performance.
- Matter Collaboration: A collaboration platform that allows teams to easily collaborate on documents.
Features
Matter products offer a number of features that make document processing and collaboration simpler and more efficient.
- Automation: Automate complex workflows and tasks to save time and effort.
- Real-Time Insights: Gain real-time insights into document activity and performance.
- Security & Compliance: All documents are protected with enterprise-grade security and compliance.
- Integrations: Easily integrate with other business tools such as databases, API’s, etc.
Conclusion
Matter offers a suite of products that are designed to simplify and streamline document management. With its powerful automation, real-time insights and secure collaboration capabilities, businesses can use Matter to revolutionize the way they work. Matter products aimed at enabling connected objects to communicate with each other are coming, and more and more announcements keep coming in.
Matter is the name of the open source standards and protocols that have been proposed to enable different IoT devices talk to each other. This makes it possible for the devices to recognize one another, find out how to communicate, and understand how to exchange data.
The initiative is being led by the Thread Working Group, which is an alliance between tech groups such as Samsung, Google parent Alphabet Inc., ARM, and Freescale. Matter has also been adopted by the Zigbee Alliance and work is underway at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to develop standards that will help improve interoperability between devices.
So far, several companies have announced products compatible with Matter. For instance, Google has announced plans for a new smart home hub that uses Matter technology. This hub will enable users to connect multiple devices and control them using a single app. Similarly, Samsung has announced its own ‘SmartThings Hub’ that will use Matter technology to let users control their devices with a single app.
Other companies such as Striim, Hubbell, and the WBE Group have announced solutions that use Matter, while Apple has included support for it in its HomeKit platform. Meanwhile, the recently announced ThreadGroup certification program is expected to provide a means for ensuring that products using Matter meet certain standards.
Matter is bound to play a major role in the future of IoT and help build an easier, more reliable network of connected devices. With more and more companies joining the initiative, it is only a matter of time before devices become truly connected and interoperable.