Schneider Electric has formed a strategic relationship with Wood to Help Accelerate Open Automation to offer additional open and interoperable automation solutions to its mutual customers.

C3 AI, Baker Hughes, and Microsoft announced the launch of the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI), an open ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions for the energy and process industries.

Siemens Digital Industries Software and MaRS Discovery District have partnered to provide access to Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services to support and accelerate the development of autonomous and connected vehicles

Silicon Labs and Edge Impulse announce a collaboration to Accelerate Machine Learning Applications development and deployment on Silicon Labs EFR32 wireless SoCs and EFM32 microcontrollers (MCUs).

Hitachi ABB Power Grids and Hitachi Vantara announced the integration of Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ Digital Enterprise (DE) flagship solutions within the Lumada portfolio of advanced digital solutions and services for turning data into insights.

SAP SE and Microsoft Corp. announced plans to integrate Microsoft Teams with SAP’s intelligent suite of solutions.  The companies also formalized an extensive expansion of an existing strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.

SAP SE and Signavio GmbH announced that SAP has entered into an agreement to acquire Signavio, a provider in the enterprise business process intelligence and process management space.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) announced their joint development of an original blockchain technology that can optimize (peer-to-peer) P2P energy trading

Uptake announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Reliability Center, Inc. (RCI) to Strengthen Reliability-Centered Maintenance in an effort to advance equipment and plant reliability for the process and asset-intensive industries

Belden Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the Acquisition of OTN Systems N.V., a provider of automation networking infrastructure solutions, for approximately $71 million.