Siemens MindSphere is an open, cloud-based IoT ecosystem (Siemens calls it an “IoT operating system”) that runs on the SAP HANA cloud platform. MindSphere, designed for industrial enterprise users, offers a number of services, apps, and compatible hardware, including a recent integration with IBM Watson Analytics tools.
Siemens and FPT will implement MindSphere for IoT solutions, focussing on industrial businesses in regions of geographical overlap between the two companies, i.e., the Asia Pacific region (including FPT’s native Vietnam) and Europe (Siemens AG hails from Germany). The collaboration plans to cover a broad range of services, including IIoT consulting, system integration, and application and connectivity development.
“Through our partnership with FPT, we are further expanding the ecosystem around our IoT operating system MindSphere and with it the digital transformation across all industries,” said Siemens AG’s Jan Mrosik. “FPT’s deep knowledge in analytics, cloud technologies, engineering services and application development makes them a valuable partner for us and our customers.”
With plans to expand to additional cloud services, including AWS and Azure, MindSphere is certainly trying to provide an impact on IIoT. Of course, this is hardly a surprise, as Siemens is a company that firmly believes in the coming fourth industrial revolution (aka Industry 4.0). Naturally, FPT shares this vision.
“As we are in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, companies must transform themselves into more digital-centric entities,” said FPT Software CEO Hoang Viet Anh. “By combining FPT’s expertise in IoT enablement for various industries, with MindSphere’s vision to simplify IoT interaction and experience, we can open door to limitless inspiring digital innovations.”
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