Siemens AGhas launched an open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator, to accelerate digital transformation and
value creation for customers of all sizes in industry, buildings, grids, and mobility. The business platform makes digital transformation easier, faster, and scalable. The business platform includes a curated portfolio of internet of things (IoT)-enabled hardware, software, and digital services from across Siemens and certified third parties; a growing ecosystem of partners; and an evolving marketplace to facilitate interactions and transactions between customers, partners, and developers.
Enabling digital transformation, easier, faster and at scale
打開數字商務平台創造價值or participants by facilitating interactions and fostering innovation between multiple parties – customers, partners, developers etc. as no one can do it alone. With the launch of Siemens Xcelerator, step-by-step, Siemens will transform its entire portfolio of hardware and software to become modular, cloud-connected and built on standard application programming interfaces (APIs). The highest standards and value for all parties will be ensured by strong technical and commercial governance principles. Siemens and third-party offerings will adhere to the design principles of interoperability, flexibility, openness and as-a-service.
New SaaS launch — Building X
Siemens announced the first new SaaS offering as part of Siemens Xcelerator. Building X is a new smart building suite to create a single source of truth that takes complexity out of digitalization and supports customers to achieve their net zero goals. It is an end-to-end data and analytics suite breaking down data silos across domains such as energy management, security and building maintenance. Building X is a modular, fully cloud-based open software suite, with AI enabled applications, strong connectivity, and built-in cybersecurity.
Siemens also plans to integrate its industrial internet of things (IIoT) solutions for industry as Industrial Operations X, which will bring together solutions and applications from sensor to edge to cloud, IoT as-a-service and low code development capabilities, as well as a wide range of ready-to-use-apps. It enables the fusion of data from the real world of automation with the digital world of information technology, enriched by Siemens’ comprehensive vertical IT/ OT integration knowledge and capabilities. Breaking down data silos will help companies to increase their performance, productivity, flexibility, and sustainability.
The first major partnership agreement under the Siemens Xcelerator umbrella is with NVIDIA. The two companies announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology that will help bring industrial automation to a new level.