Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today an expansion of its partnership with Microsoft to make the Siemens Xcelerator as a Service portfolio of industry software available through Microsoft’s cloud and AI platform Azure and integrate it with generative AI and Copilot features.
This collaboration will increase flexibility and choice for Siemens’ customers and make Microsoft’s industry-leading AI solutions more accessible to Siemens customers.
“Our customers have asked Siemens to bring our industry-leading industrial software to Azure,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, CEO and president of Siemens Digital Industries Software. Siemens and Microsoft have been partners for more than 35 years, and we are pleased to expand this partnership so we can best enable our customers to digitally transform through our joint solutions.”
As a first step, Siemens will deliver Teamcenter X software, the rapidly scalable and secure PLM solution, on Microsoft Azure, enabling customers to implement their mission-critical solutions on their preferred cloud and AI platform.
Built on the same trusted, robust, and secure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architecture used by some of the world’s leading manufacturers and innovators, Teamcenter X empowers teams to start fast and get their product data under control, enabling them to reduce cycle time, minimize IT costs and speed innovation.
With the availability of Teamcenter X on Azure, organizations can benefit from Microsoft’s responsible AI tools and access to enterprise-grade security.
This continued collaboration builds a new app, which takes advantage of the latest advances in generative AI and Natural Language Processing.
Siemens is also developing a Copilot for Microsoft 365 plugin for the Siemens Teamcenter app on Teams to ask Microsoft Copilot for help with summarizing outstanding tasks and workflows out of comfort.
Siemens developers are using GitHub Copilot to deliver new features like these to customers as fast as possible.
“As Microsoft and Siemens continue to deepen our collaboration, we are excited to bring the power of Azure AI to the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to meet growing market demand and help businesses focus on delivering differentiated customer value faster. By harnessing our latest advances with generative AI and Copilot capabilities, together we empower design engineers, frontline workers, and teams across business functions and geographies, unlocking new levels of customer-centric innovation and productivity,” said Nick Parker, President, Industry & Partnerships at Microsoft.
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