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As the IIoT segment matures, it can be instructive to note where companies choose to work together, and where they choose to compete. In a space characterized by complexity in two dimensions: a wide variety of opportunities or business problems to be addressed, and a (typically multi-vendor) technology stack, it's not surprising that companies will seek to collaborate in order to offer industrial companies a more complete solution. Two important partnerships were announced recently. GE and Microsoft are working together to offer a combination of Predix and Azure, and IBM is joining forces with AT&T to leverage Bluemix, Watson, M2X, Flow Designer, and Control Center.
Industrial Platform on a Cloud
Predix on Azure is expected to be commercially available in Q2 2017. There's every reason to think that many customers will be interested in this. Microsoft has a long history of working with industrial companies on both the IT and OT sides of the house. And as in industrial company itself, GE is now offering an industrial internet platform. But one of the real benefits will certainly be providing companies the ability to connect the data from assets running on Predix with other apps and analytics software running on or integrated with Microsoft’s Azure platform.
Connectivity and Cognitive Computing
IBM and AT&T are collaborating to provide a fully integrated solution that can enable deeper insights from connected device data. Watson APIs, including visual recognition, personality insights, tradeoff analytics and translation, can play a key role at the top of the IIoT technology stack, dealing with unstructured data supplying cognitive computing, and deep learning. The AT&T platform enables the bottom of the stack, letting users track assets in real-time and provide increased connectivity. With this partnership, users will have access to AT&T M2X, Flow Designer and Control Center as well as the Watson IoT platform and IBM Bluemix services. Developers will be able to purchase this package within one toolkit. AT&T also plans to introduce an “IoT in a box” concept that will expedite IoT projects.
Who stands to benefit?
Industrial customers definitely can benefit from these kinds of alliances. They face numerous challenges in effectively using IIoT, so it's good to be able to take advantage of platforms that work together. This kind of collaboration can help simply the customer's task of getting all the technology bits to work together, thereby allowing them more time to ensure that they can use the technology to transform their businesses. And of course, the collaborating parties also benefit from being able to offer a more complete solution to their customers.
Industrial Platform on a Cloud
Predix on Azure is expected to be commercially available in Q2 2017. There's every reason to think that many customers will be interested in this. Microsoft has a long history of working with industrial companies on both the IT and OT sides of the house. And as in industrial company itself, GE is now offering an industrial internet platform. But one of the real benefits will certainly be providing companies the ability to connect the data from assets running on Predix with other apps and analytics software running on or integrated with Microsoft’s Azure platform.
Connectivity and Cognitive Computing
IBM and AT&T are collaborating to provide a fully integrated solution that can enable deeper insights from connected device data. Watson APIs, including visual recognition, personality insights, tradeoff analytics and translation, can play a key role at the top of the IIoT technology stack, dealing with unstructured data supplying cognitive computing, and deep learning. The AT&T platform enables the bottom of the stack, letting users track assets in real-time and provide increased connectivity. With this partnership, users will have access to AT&T M2X, Flow Designer and Control Center as well as the Watson IoT platform and IBM Bluemix services. Developers will be able to purchase this package within one toolkit. AT&T also plans to introduce an “IoT in a box” concept that will expedite IoT projects.
Who stands to benefit?
Industrial customers definitely can benefit from these kinds of alliances. They face numerous challenges in effectively using IIoT, so it's good to be able to take advantage of platforms that work together. This kind of collaboration can help simply the customer's task of getting all the technology bits to work together, thereby allowing them more time to ensure that they can use the technology to transform their businesses. And of course, the collaborating parties also benefit from being able to offer a more complete solution to their customers.