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GE and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership that will make GE's Predix platform for the Industrial Internet available on the Microsoft Azure cloud for industrial businesses. The move marks the first step in a broad strategic collaboration between the two companies, which will allow customers to capture intelligence from their industrial assets and leverage Microsoft's enterprise cloud applications.
As businesses look to connect their industrial machines from the edge to the cloud, bringing Predix to Azure gives customers additional choice and flexibility to further leverage data from machines and intelligent systems. Companies will be able to accelerate the convergence between the operational and information technologies (OT/IT) that make up the Industrial Internet of Things.
As the shift to a more industrialized information age continues, the opportunity to deliver new digital solutions, insights and increased efficiencies is accelerating the need for higher level services. GE's Predix platform is currently being used by industrial customers to build, deploy, and operate industrial applications. Bringing Predix to Azure means those same customers will now have access to additional capabilities, such as natural language technology, artificial intelligence, additional data visualization, and enterprise application integration.
Azure will support the growth of the industrial IoT ecosystem by offering Predix customers access to its large cloud footprint, along with data sovereignty, hybrid capabilities, and developer and data services. In addition, GE and Microsoft plan to integrate Predix with Azure IoT Suite and Cortana Intelligence Suite along with Microsoft business applications, such as Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Power BI, in order to connect industrial data with business processes and analytics.
A developer preview will be released toward the end of 2016, and Predix on Azure will be commercially available by the second quarter of 2017. More information about Microsoft and GE's partnership will be shared at Predix Transform, July 25–27 in Las Vegas, and Minds + Machines, Nov. 15–16 in San Francisco.
Keywords: Microsoft Azure Cloud, Industrial Business, Industrial Assets, Industrial Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Data Visualization, ARC Advisory Group.