To accelerate industrial transformation and fully embrace the AI opportunity, enterprises must achieve new levels of interoperability and repeatability. The industrial ecosystem is extensive and diverse, requiring OT, IT, IoT, Data/AI partners and their systems to work cohesively together to address a broad spectrum of industrial use cases. With the adaptive cloud approach and Azure Arc, Azure is delivering a modern, cloud-to-edge foundation designed to support industrial requirements and enable deployments at scale. By using a consistent set of cloud native tools and standardized practices, enterprises can centralize deployment, management, security, and governance to innovate faster and gain a competitive edge. One such Arc-enabled service, Azure IoT Operations, is a set of highly composable, modular edge to cloud services. Azure IoT Operations helps partners develop customer solutions that need to operate amongst a diverse set of vendors and systems. These collaborations are the bedrock of a thriving ecosystem that drives innovation, addresses customer needs, and propels industry standards forward.
With the General Availability (GA) release of Azure IoT Operations, we are proud to spotlight the pivotal role of our launch partners in advancing data-driven digital transformation. Here are the first 19 strategic partners we’re working with to advance our vision of creating scalable and open standards-based solutions that empower manufacturing and industrial customers worldwide -
SI Partners leading the charge with adaptive cloud approach and Azure IoT Operations
System Integrators and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) solutions providers connect, modernize, and enable existing IT - OT solutions integrated with our platform to drive long-term customer success. As part of Azure IoT Operations' journey, we have been working with SI Partners in our early adopters program to release services and offerings that help customers accelerate their transition from PoC to production:
1. Avanade
Avanade’s latest Azure IoT Operations offering provides hands-on experience and support for deploying and managing IoT data from edge to cloud, integrating with Microsoft Fabric for data analysis and visualization. This service helps companies address machine and asset connectivity challenges, enabling operational insights and digital transformation through workshops and implementation support.
2. Capgemini
As part of Capgemini's Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Reference Architecture, Azure IoT Operations collects AI-ready data at the edge and syncs it with the cloud using Azure Arc and Kubernetes for secure, modular solutions. This drives cost savings and Industry 4.0 adoption at scale, as demonstrated by their visual inspection use case, which enhances product quality and inspection efficiency. Learn more about Capgemini’s Intelligent Industry solutions here.
Celebal Technologies’s OT Liberator featured here on Azure Marketplace, integrated with Azure IoT Operations, enables rapid data extraction across complex operational technology systems, enhancing real-time, secure data flows and overcoming traditional data management limitations from the edge to the cloud. Together, the OT Liberator collaboration with Azure IoT Operations results in proactive management, reduced costs, and supports AI-powered analytics for industrial operations.
Cognizant's AI-powered solutions integrate seamlessly with Azure IoT Operations to deliver rapid and impactful business results. Their AI business accelerators blend AI, automation, and industry expertise into plug-and-play solutions. Customers can achieve tangible outcomes, scalable operations, and improved efficiency to harness the full potential of AI with Cognizant.
DXC's AI and IoT analytics Intelligent Boost Platform uses Microsoft PaaS and AI cloud services to offer pre-built, managed Solution Accelerators. The platform enhances operational efficiency by integrating Microsoft, Dell, and Intel services. Azure IoT Operations provides advanced capabilities, delivering faster, lower-risk, and cost-efficient AI, IoT, and analytics solutions.
6. Innominds
Innominds leverages AI, IoT, and cloud technologies to drive digital transformation and innovation. By integrating Azure IoT Operations’ extensibility, they ensure customers receive tailored, cutting-edge services. Their expertise spans connected devices, cognitive analytics, and comprehensive product engineering, positioning them as a leader in delivering adaptive, custom solutions for diverse needs.
7. MaibornWolff
MaibornWolff is a leading consulting and software development firm specializing in Industrial IoT solutions. They drive digital transformation by connecting machines, data, and people to optimizing processes, and enhance productivity. Their expertise with UNS based IIoT platforms using Kubernetes from cloud to edge ensures seamless integration and operational efficiency for customers as seen here – Building a smart factory platform using Azure IoT Operations.
8. Mesh Systems
Mesh Systems specializes in delivering cloud-connected products and fully managed IoT solutions. Leveraging Azure IoT Operations, they provide scalable, secure connectivity for industrial applications. Their end-to-end approach ensures seamless integration, robust performance, and tailored solutions that meet each client’s unique needs.
SoftWeb Solutions is at the forefront of advancing industrial digital transformation with its unified technology architecture. The IoT360 program provides exceptional consulting services, covering aspects like device selection, network architecture, and data monitoring. With SoftWeb Solutions, organizations can turn their physical operations into intelligent, data-driven environments, unlocking new business value through comprehensive solutions.
10. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
TCS's AI-led, IP-based IoT solutions powered by Azure IoT Operations like TCS Clever EnergyTM, TCS Intelligent Power Plant, TCS Digital Manufacturing Plant and TCS InTwinTM empower leading global enterprises across industries to unlock new revenue models, deliver superior customer experiences, bring business agility and achieve sustainability goals.
Technology providers accelerating time to value for customers
We are collaborating with a wide range of technology partners to enable high value, industry-specific, cloud-native industrial AI and analytics end-to-end solutions. These include industrial automation and technology partners that help connect, modernize, and enable customers to digitally transform their operations faster through existing and next-gen OT and IoT solutions:
1. Canonical
Canonical has partnered with Microsoft to test Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, enhancing the capabilities of edge cloud computing. By leveraging Azure IoT Operations and Ubuntu Core/Kubernetes, customers can build robust IoT solutions with enhanced data modeling, analytics capabilities, and seamless data experience using standards like MQTT, OPC-UA, and OpenTelemetry. See the announcement: here.
2. Litmus
Litmus announced the integration of Litmus Edge with Azure IoT Operations and Azure Arc, empowering manufacturers to seamlessly integrate industrial data across edge and cloud infrastructures, driving smarter operations and operational improvements at scale.
3. MTEK
MTEK is enabling scalable digitization and efficiency of core industrial operations by integrating its MBrain MES/MOM platform with Azure IoT Operations and providing a path for MBrain deployment via Arc. MTEK’s adoption of the adaptive cloud approach will drive IT/OT convergence and deliver robust manufacturing execution, real-time monitoring, and efficient data management from edge-to-cloud.
4. NVIDIA
NVIDIA and Microsoft are collaborating to accelerate industrial AI and enable enterprises to unlock real-time remote observability of operations at factory scale. By integrating NVIDIA Omniverse™ with Azure IoT Operations, enterprises can take advantage of immersive, physically accurate 3D worlds and simulations to transform operations. At Ignite, we are delivering a reference workflow that takes advantage of Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and an adaptive cloud approach to provide a scalable foundation for enabling industrial operational twin, simulation, and physical AI scenarios. Get started with Azure Arc Jumpstart and check out the live demo in the Hub at Ignite to learn more.
Rockwell Automation and Microsoft are partnering to accelerate the factory of the future by delivering highly integrated, easy to deploy factory modernization solutions that take an adaptive cloud approach. Customers can now use FactoryTalk Optix with Azure IoT Operations to unlock seamless edge-to-cloud connectivity and contextualization, streamlining application delivery and AI powered insights. Our AI collaborations, including the FT Optix Food & Beverage Industrial Model on Azure, supercharge this story to simplify onboarding, operations, and maintenance of shopfloor solutions. Learn more at the Microsoft booth 560 at Rockwell Automation Fair from Nov 18-21.
Sight Machine is making Factory CONNECT, the connectivity solution within its Manufacturing Data Platform, available for deployment at the edge through Azure IoT Operations. Factory CONNECT is Sight Machine’s set of tools for ingesting, labelling and unifying all factory data sources, automating the standardization and contextualization of data and making it ready for more sophisticated transformation and analysis.
Azure IoT Operations also provides connectivity providers with the ability to develop industrial connectors capable of ingesting, normalizing, and contextualizing edge data from hundreds of protocols for dedicated systems and gateways. As announced earlier this year at Hannover Messe, we continue to partner with Advantech, Softing and PTC Kepware to help bridge the critical industrial connectivity gap and accelerate time to value for customers.
We are excited to see how customers will use our partner solutions alongside Azure IoT Operations to modernize their operations faster and at scale. These solutions amplify the transformative potential of our platform and illustrate how customers can quickly realize value out of their entire data estate through future ready, scalable architectures.
Join the Future of Industrial Innovation
As we continue to forge ahead in the realm of AI-powered industrial transformation, Azure IoT Operations stands as a beacon for innovation and efficiency. Our partners exemplify the collaborative efforts in this new era of repeatability and interoperability. By integrating cutting-edge technologies with industry-specific insights, these collaborations drive operational excellence and help unlock new horizons of business value. We invite organizations to take an adaptive cloud approach, explore how Azure IoT Operations can enhance your ability to adopt and scale AI, and join us in shaping the future of industrial innovation.
Learn more about Azure IoT Operations: here
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