Leading technology company, Siemens, and multinational software giant, Microsoft, have teamed up for a new venture to increase productivity and help organizations bring products to market.
Tony Hemmelgarn, CEO and president of Siemens Digital Industries Software confirmed the partnership in a news release as seen by Newsng.
As per the release, Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence platform. Azure, will now offer Siemens Xcelerator as a Service, a portfolio of industry software that is integrated with Copilot and generative AI.
“Our customers have asked for Siemens to bring our industry-leading industrial software to Azure,” said Hemmelgarn. “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.”
The release explained that to help employees throughout the whole product lifecycle and value chain better track and prioritise their workloads, Siemens is also creating a Copilot for Microsoft 365 plugin for the Siemens Teamcenter app on Teams.
From the convenience of their Teams app, they will be able to request assistance from Microsoft Copilot in summarising unfinished tasks and workflows.
Siemens developers are leveraging GitHub Copilot to quickly deliver new features like these to consumers.
Commenting on the partnership and plans for the future, Nick Parker, President, Industry & Partnerships at Microsoft said: “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.”
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