Microsoft Monday unveiled a partnership with General Electric to strengthen its Internet of Things portfolio, a move the software giant said would help industrial customers better take advantage of its enterprise cloud applications.
As part of the partnership, GE’s Industrial IoT platform-as-a-service, Predix — which aims to enable customers to rapidly build, deploy and operate industrial IoT applications — will be available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud.
The Microsoft-GE alliance creates a bridge between IT and operating technologies, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a keynote speech Monday at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
