Acquisitions & Partnerships Viewpoints

Jul
15
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Acquisition or Partnership

AVEVA Integrates Crosser Acquisition into CONNECT Industrial Intelligence Platform

AVEVA has integrated Crosser’s industrial edge DataOps technology into CONNECT, extending the platform’s real-time data contextualization, edge analytics, and automation capabilities.

Jul
14
2026

Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership

Hitachi Digital Services and ServiceNow Partner on AI-Powered Infrastructure Monitoring

Hitachi Digital Services and ServiceNow are working together to advance Hitachi Intelligent Infrastructure Monitoring by combining OT expertise, physical AI, analytics, and automated enterprise workflows.

Jul
01
2026

Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership

Schneider Electric’s Planned Acquisition of Cognite Reinforces the Data Foundation for Industrial AI

Schneider Electric’s planned acquisition of Cognite will strengthen AVEVA’s industrial intelligence platform by adding data contextualization, industrial knowledge graph, and agentic AI capabilities for asset-intensive industries.

Jun
30
2026

David Humphrey — Acquisition or Partnership

Siemens and IFS Partner to Close the Loop Across the Product Lifecycle with Industrial AI

Siemens and IFS announced a strategic partnership to help manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality, increasing the value of their products and optimizing their production assets across the entire product lifecycle with Industrial AI.

Jun
30
2026

Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership

thyssenkrupp and GlobalLogic Partner to Advance Physical AI in Heavy Industry

thyssenkrupp and GlobalLogic are partnering with Method and Hitachi America R&D to develop a Lab-to-Scale Physical AI pipeline for autonomous operations, safety, and decarbonization in heavy industry.

Jun
30
2026

Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership

Schneider Electric to Acquire Cognite to Strengthen Industrial AI Portfolio

Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire Cognite in a $3.1 billion all-cash transaction to strengthen AVEVA CONNECT and expand Industrial AI capabilities across asset-intensive operations.

Jun
23
2026

Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership

Hitachi Energy to Acquire Canduct to Expand Transformer Component Capacity in North America

Hitachi Energy has signed an agreement to acquire Canduct Group, a Canadian manufacturer of transformer insulation kits and components, to strengthen transformer supply chain capacity in North America.

Jun
23
2026

Larry O'Brien — Acquisition or Partnership

Accenture Takes a Majority Stake in Dragos, Acquires Other Providers for End-to-End OT Cyber Capabilities

Accenture’s majority stake in Dragos, along with its acquisitions of runZero and NetRise, reflects growing demand for integrated OT cybersecurity capabilities across industrial and critical infrastructure environments.

Jun
23
2026

Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership

Hitachi and OpenAI Expand AI Work for Legacy System Modernization and Cybersecurity

Hitachi plans to work with OpenAI’s FDE teams and cybersecurity models to support legacy system modernization, strengthen defensive cyber capabilities, and enhance HMAX.

Jun
17
2026

David Humphrey — Acquisition or Partnership

Siemens Partners with Databricks and FFT to Turn Production Data into Scalable AI-Driven Insights

Siemens announced an edge-to-cloud integration with Databricks and FFT that streams contextualized production data from Siemens Industrial Edge to the Databricks Platform for AI model training and deployment.