Microsoft And ABB Partner To Drive Digital Industrial Transformation

[HardOCP News]

ABB and Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic partnership to help industrial customers create new value with digital solutions. Customers will benefit from the unique combination of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud and ABB’s deep domain knowledge and extensive portfolio of industrial solutions. The two partners are committed to empowering digital transformation in customer segments such as robotics, marine and ports, electric vehicles and renewable energy. By selecting Microsoft Azure as the exclusive cloud partner for its integrated connectivity platform, ABB customers will now have access to an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure that benefits from billions of dollars of ongoing investment.

 

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Hopefully this partnership results in better products than what Rockwell 'achieves' by hacking together some 'software' called FactoryTalk Garbage that, for some reason, references 151,248,431,120 Windows objects while failing at the most basic tasks.