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GE and Microsoft Corp. announced an expanded partnership, bringing together operational technology and information technology to help eliminate some of the hurdles industrial companies face in advancing digital transformation projects. As part of the union, GE Digital plans to standardize its Predix solutions on Microsoft Azure and will integrate the Predix portfolio with Azure’s native cloud capabilities, including Azure IoT and Azure Data and Analytics. The parties will also co-sell and go-to-market together, offering end customers Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions across multiple verticals. In addition, GE will leverage Microsoft Azure across its business for additional IT workloads and productivity tools, including internal Predix-based deployments, to help further drive innovation across the company.
Advancing Industrial IoT Applications
GE Digital’s Predix is an application development platform designed to provide industrial organizations with tools to help build, deploy and run IIoT applications from edge to cloud, which can accelerate the process of turning asset data into actionable insights. Leveraging Azure will also help to accelerate adoption of the Predix portfolio. The partnership brings together GE Digital’s domain knowledge of industrial data and applications with Microsoft’s enterprise cloud, helping its customers to speed deployment of industrial applications and achieve tangible outcomes faster, which should help to accelerate growth and business innovation.
Driving Innovation across GE
GE also plans to leverage Azure across the company for a wide range of IT workloads and productivity tools, helping to further accelerate digital innovation and driving efficiencies. This partnership also enables the different GE businesses to tap into Microsoft’s enterprise capabilities, which will support the multiple petabytes of data managed by the Predix platform, such as GE’s monitoring and diagnostics centers, internal manufacturing and services programs.