Amazon's Echo IoT Platform

Amazon's Echo IoT ecosystem platform 

See article from CIO:  

http://www.cio.com/article/3047524/internet-of-things/is-amazon-echo-the-next-enterprise-iot-platform.html

Anyone in South Africa using Amazon's Echo IoT platform? Other IoT Enterprise platforms I'm aware of include: Hitachi, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Particle and some proprietary solutions in South Africa.

Interested to know who is using which IoT Enterprise platforms in South Africa.