ABB and Microsoft Corp. have announced a strategic partnership to help industrial customers create new value with digital solutions. The partnership combines the Microsoft Azure intelligent cloud and ABB's deep domain knowledge and extensive portfolio of industrial solutions.
"By selecting Microsoft Azure as the cloud for its integrated connectivity platform, ABB's customers will now have access to an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure that benefits from billions of dollars of ongoing investment," said a spokesperson.
"This partnership will provide unique benefits to our customers in utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure, building on the combined strength of Microsoft and ABB," said ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. "Building on our installed base of more than 70 million connected devices and more than 70,000 digital control systems, the next step is to develop one of the world's largest industrial cloud platforms."
"The ABB Ability offering combines ABB's portfolio of digital solutions and services across all customer segments," said the spokesperson. "ABB's new integrated cloud platform will be a key enabler for ABB Ability and is expected to create a large, open, digital industrial ecosystem for customers, partners, suppliers and developers.
"Together, ABB and Microsoft will accelerate digital solutions that improve customers' productivity by increasing uptime, speed and yield. As ABB standardizes its platform on Azure, the company will take full advantage of Azure services such as Azure IoT Suite and Cortana Intelligence Suite to capitalize on insights gathered at every level from device, to system, to enterprise, to cloud."
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ABB
www.abb.com
Microsoft Azure
www.azure.microsoft.com