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Partners powering AI transformation globally: Agentic solutions in action at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025
Microsoft and its partners accelerate industrial AI innovations at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025, driving manufacturing innovation and collaboration worldwide.
ABB and Microsoft put electric cars on a cloud
The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly. Yet worldwide there are currently just 106,000 public EV charging stations for more than 1 million EVs. As the industry powers up to meet demand, global revenue from EV charging services is projected to grow from $152.6 million last year to $2.9 billion by 2023, according to Navigant Research. This represents a huge opportunity for companies to capture that revenue through new products, improved scalability and reduced maintenance costs.
ON DEMAND: Reimagining Discrete Manufacturing
ON DEMAND: The Internet of Your Things: Reimagining Discrete Manufacturing (Automotive, High Tech, Aerospace and Industrial) in a Connected World.
Office 2016: enabling the Modern Workplace for manufacturers
The launch of Office 2016, helps organizations reinvent productivity and business processes. Office 2016 changes the nature of work, making collaboration and teamwork easier than ever before.
Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud: Accelerating innovation for manufacturers
This summer we took to the stage to share Microsoft’s vision for the intelligent cloud, unveiling Cortana Analytics and demonstrating the power of big data, advanced analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) in a cloud-connected rocket car.
Celebrating Manufacturing Day: A new era of digital opportunity
As we celebrate Manufacturing Day 2015, I reflect on how much change has happened in manufacturing as an industry in the last few decades.
Extracting value from industrial IoT using a higher level of thinking
I have discussed before that in order to talk about the value of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in manufacturing, we need to have a holistic view that includes the Industrial Internet of Things, the Internet of People and the Internet of Services (IIoT/P/S). I was recently asked by a client about the role of IIoT in the context of digital transformation of the enterprise.
The future of design engineering
Just as today’s technology innovations are helping transform products into a new world of connected solutions, they are also ushering in a new era of how we design.
A new way of thinking
Microsoft’s Enrique Andaluz discusses how manufacturers today are transitioning from offering products to offering those products as digital services.
How IoT enables smart agriculture
In my last blog, I shared a powerful story of how ThyssenKrupp Elevator is driving an Industry 4.0-type transformation. We are observing similar kind of digital transformation within industries like agriculture, too. The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we grow and cultivate our food.
Want to see IoT in action? What better way than in a cloud-connected rocket car
Seeing the results of our advanced analytics team's efforts pay off big time is always a satisfying feeling.
A Hannover Messe Behind-the-Scenes: Microsoft customers steal the show
It is clear that organizations want to move quickly to take advantage of IoT’s opportunities and they want to bring IoT transformation across multiple parts of the world.