Schneider Electric and Planon announced that they will work together to bring a platform to market that will converge real-time building data and AI-driven analytics with intelligent business responses, helping to create day-to-day operational workflows for building operators, building occupiers, and their service providers. 

HMS Industrial Networks AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS Networks AB, has acquired 74.9% of all shares in the German company WEBfactory GmbH located in Buchen, Germany, a leading provider of web-based software solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things.

Nokia announced that it will partner with Pöyry, an international consulting and engineering company, and Infosys to further enhance and accelerate the adoption of KRTI 4.0, an artificial intelligence (AI) framework for operational excellence.

Emerson and Repsol announced they have established a strategic alliance to deliver advanced subsurface geophysical technologies to reduce the time to prospect and produce first oil.

BP have appointed ABB as one of its global Main Electrical Contractors (MEC) for the provision of engineering, procurement and construction of electrical equipment for BP Upstream Major Capital Projects.

ABB and Dassault Systèmes announced a global partnership to offer customers in digital industries a software solutions portfolio ranging from product life cycle management to asset health solutions. The two companies reportedly will provide customers an end-to-end offering of advanced open digital solutions.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and Robert Bosch GmbH, announced a research collaboration focused on 5G NR technology applications for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Microsoft and SAP announced they are extending their partnership to IoT.  SAP Leonardo IoT will integrate with Azure IoT services providing customers with the ability to contextualize and enrich their IoT data with SAP business data within SAP Leonardo IoT.

ServiceMax, a provider of cloud-based software for service execution, announced it has acquired Zinc, the company providing a frictionless way for service workers to get and share knowledge in real-time.  The acquisition enables ServiceMax to expand its Service Execution Management platform.