Acquisitions & Partnerships Viewpoints

ABB, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Rittal will unveil the Secure Edge Data Center (SEDC) for industrial and telecommunications environments at Hannover Messe. 

ServiceMax from GE Digital, a software company for the Industrial Internet, and Zinc, a provider of an Enterprise Communication platform, announced a jointly developed solution for field service teams to have real-time communication, and specifically correlated to Predix ServiceMax work orders, accounts, installed products and contacts.

Rockwell Automation and Cisco have released new network design guides and white papers to help companies connect mobile devices and deploy end-to-end cloud connectivity while maintaining security best practices.

Emerson announced it has signed an agreement to purchase the Tools and Test Equipment (Tools & Test) business of Textron for $810 million.

Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer, signed an agreement to pick up 50 percent stake in a planned $44-billion refinery-cum-petrochemical project in Maharashtra, India - a move that will give it an assured customer for additional 30 million tons of its crude oil.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the establishment on April 1 of a Single Cellome Co-innovators' Consortium.

Universal mCloud Corp., a provider of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics (AI&A) and IoT-connected asset care technology, announced that it has signed a partnership with a Silicon Valley-based Cypress Envirosystems Inc. 

Infosys announced a definitive agreement to acquire WONGDOODY, a US-based, full-service creative and consumer insights agency.

Wind River announced that global alternative asset firm TPG will acquire the company from Intel.

Siemens has taken over ownership of the company Agilion GmbH based in Chemnitz.