Microsoft named a Chief within the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Industrial IoT Platforms | Azure Weblog and Updates

As industries around the globe speed up their digital transformation to scale back operational bills, create new service choices, and obtain sustainability targets, industrial IoT platforms are taking part in a foundational function. Microsoft is deeply dedicated to serving to the world’s industries obtain these targets and for a few years we have now invested in capabilities to empower this, together with our industrial IoT platform.

This is the reason we’re sharing that Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Chief within the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms¹ for the second 12 months in a row and positioned Microsoft furthest on Completeness of Imaginative and prescient and highest on Capacity to Execute. Microsoft additionally shares the Leaders quadrant on this report with key Azure companions like PTC and Hitachi. Collectively, we’re in a singular place to assist industrial clients around the globe to attain their targets.

As we set out years in the past to construct our Industrial IoT Platform capabilities, there have been a number of key tenets we used to information us:

• Safety first: Safety is probably the most vital elementary to Industrial IoT options. To allow this, we’ve constructed on our a long time of safety expertise and created a collection of capabilities for purchasers and companions that allow their IT and OT groups to work properly collectively. From chip to cloud, utilizing Azure Lively Listing, Azure Key Vault, Azure IoT Hub and Machine Provisioning Service, Azure Sphere, Azure Defender for IoT, and Azure Sentinel, we offer the richest set of safety capabilities out there. Safety is rarely accomplished, and we proceed to increase our safety capabilities every year, most just lately with our acquisition of ReFirm Labs to supply deep safety scanning of machine firmware.
• Open and interoperable: Industrial clients anticipate decisions, not lock-in, and from day one we have now embraced open interoperability. Microsoft totally embraces open requirements and open-source and have taken a standards-based strategy to Industrial IoT. We’re the primary contributor of open-source software program to the OPC Basis, a founding member of the Digital Twin Consortium and the Open Manufacturing Platform, and in addition work in lots of industry-related our bodies together with The Sensible Manufacturing Institute, VDMA, The Open Group, bitkom, DIN, A*Star, Labs Community Industries 4.0, ODVA, The Business Web Consortium, ZVEI, Platform Industries 4.0, NAMUR, Open Business 4.0 Alliance, and GAIA-X.
• Edge and cloud: The brand new sturdy compute paradigm within the {industry} consists of the sting and the cloud working in concord—we imagine the sting is equally essential because the cloud. In Industrial IoT, we have now taken this to an entire new stage with on-premises disconnected edge computing that may be deployed throughout industrial ISA-95 compliant networks. Our edge computing assist allows the productiveness and intelligence of the cloud to be distributed and run linked or disconnected on the sting.
• Accomplice-led: Because the world’s industries speed up their digital transformations, we imagine {that a} wealthy and various associate ecosystem is named for to supply the 1000’s of specialised options utilizing Industrial IoT capabilities. From the earliest days, we have now had a partner-led technique in Industrial IoT with the world’s main impartial software program distributors (ISVs) and international system integrators (GSIs), many you discover together with us within the Gartner IIoT Magic Quadrant.

It was fantastic to see Gartner acknowledge our efforts in these 4 areas. We sit up for accelerating the world’s industries in reaching their targets, persevering with the work with our world-class companions in Industrial IoT, and in the end serving to to make the world a greater place by enabling sustainable industries.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms, 18 October 2021, Alfonso Velosa et. Al.