Schneider Electric teams with Microsoft to accelerate IoT solution delivery
Schneider Electric (schneider-electric.com/us), a global specialist in energy management and automation, announces a major advancement in its collaboration with Microsoft Corp. that significantly enhances the value the companies can offer businesses and organizations across multiple industries. Customers can now gain access to multiple cloud-based applications from Schneider’s EcoStruxure architecture that utilize the full capabilities of the Azure cloud plaform, as well as next-generation capabilities like mixed reality, to bring new levels of decision making capabilities, productivity and efficiency.
The two industry leaders will accelerate the delivery of cloud-based, IoT solutions for all of Schneider Electric’s end user segments, marrying Microsoft’s experience in the cloud with Schneider Electric’s deep domain expertise in power management, plants, machines, buildings, data centers and grids to empower companies in a wide variety of markets to use IoT as a competitive differentiator. This includes several cloud-based applications available today driving plant, building, people and asset optimization, with others being developed for delivery later this year and beyond.