Microsoft once again named a "Leader" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms!

Xiaobian said : In the new year, it is time to summarize the achievements and look forward to the future. Today, let's take a look at the of Microsoft Industrial Internet of Things-related technologies in the past 2021~

Industrial IoT platforms play a fundamental role in a world where industries are accelerating their digital transformation to reduce operating costs, create new service categories, and achieve sustainability goals. And Microsoft has always been actively committed to helping industries around the world achieve these goals. Microsoft has been investing in this for many years, including in the Industrial Internet of Things platform.

recently announced 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms, Microsoft has once again been recognized as a Leader, the second year in a row that Microsoft has won this honor. In addition, Microsoft has been the best in vision integrity and the furthest in execution. It is also worth mentioning that in this report by Gartner, Azure's important partners PTC and Hitachi were also selected as Leaders! In our view, this means that Microsoft and its partners are uniquely positioned to provide continuous support for industrial customers around the world to achieve their goals.

We have been working hard to build our own industrial IoT platform strength for many years, and we have firmly adhered to these important basic principles in our work:

01 Safety First

News recommendation is a special kind of personalized recommendation. Compared with the recommendation of commodities, movies, etc., news events are updated all the time. For the system, each news is completely new content, which makes the system unable to To obtain enough user interaction data to train the recommendation model, it is necessary to start from the news itself to strengthen the understanding of the content. Although there have been algorithmic models for news recommendation before, those models often recommend homogeneous news to users, which can easily cause users’ disgust, and it is difficult to accurately match users’ actual needs for news.

Security is the most critical foundation of IIoT solutions. To achieve this, we build on our decades of experience in security by building a suite of capabilities for our customers and partners to help their IT and OT teams collaborate more closely. From chip to cloud, Microsoft provides the richest security feature set on the market through Azure Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, Azure IoT Hub, as well as Device Provisioning Service, Azure Sphere, Azure Defender for IoT, Azure Sentinel and other technologies and services. Security never ends, and we continue to expand our security capabilities every year, and recently acquired ReFirm Labs to support deep security scanning of device firmware.

02 Openness and Interoperability

News recommendation is a special kind of personalized recommendation. Compared with the recommendation of commodities, movies, etc., news events are updated all the time. For the system, each news is completely new content, which makes the system unable to To obtain enough user interaction data to train the recommendation model, it is necessary to start from the news itself to strengthen the understanding of the content. Although there have been algorithmic models for news recommendation before, those models often recommend homogeneous news to users, which can easily cause users’ disgust, and it is difficult to accurately match users’ actual needs for news.

Industrial customers often want different options and don't want to be locked in by a certain technology. So we embraced open interoperability in full from the start. Microsoft fully supports open standards and open source work, and has also been promoting the standardization of the Industrial Internet of Things. We are the leading contributor to open source software of the OPC Foundation, a founding member of the Digital Twin Alliance and Open Manufacturing Platform, and we are also involved in many industry-related institutions, including the Smart Manufacturing Institute, VDMA, The Open Group, Bitkom, DIN , A*Star, Labs Network Industries 4.0, ODVA, Industrial Internet Alliance, ZVEI, Platform Industries 4.0, NAMUR, Open Industry 4.0 Alliance and GAIA-X, etc.

03 Edge and Cloud

News recommendation is a special kind of personalized recommendation. Compared with the recommendation of commodities, movies, etc., news events are updated all the time. For the system, each news is completely new content, which makes the system unable to To obtain enough user interaction data to train the recommendation model, it is necessary to start from the news itself to strengthen the understanding of the content. Although there have been algorithmic models for news recommendation before, those models often recommend homogeneous news to users, which can easily cause users’ disgust, and it is difficult to accurately match users’ actual needs for news.

The emerging persistent computing model in the industry includes the perfect collaboration between the edge and the cloud, and we believe that the edge and the cloud are equally important. In Industrial IoT, we're taking this to a whole new level with native disconnect edge computing, which can be deployed in all ISA-95 compliant networks. Our edge computing technology supports cloud productivity and intelligence, and can operate in a distributed mode, or with edge connectivity and disconnection.

04 Partner lead advance

News recommendation is a special kind of personalized recommendation. Compared with the recommendation of commodities, movies, etc., news events are updated all the time. For the system, each news is completely new content, which makes the system unable to To obtain enough user interaction data to train the recommendation model, it is necessary to start from the news itself to strengthen the understanding of the content. Although there have been algorithmic models for news recommendation before, those models often recommend homogeneous news to users, which can easily cause users’ disgust, and it is difficult to accurately match users’ actual needs for news.

As industries around the world accelerate their digital transformation journeys, we believe that a rich and diverse partner ecosystem is required in order to fully leverage the capabilities of the Industrial Internet of Things to provide rich, specialized solutions. We have developed an IIoT strategy from the start with the world's leading independent software vendors (ISVs) and global system integrators (GSIs), led by partners who, like us, appear in Gartner's Industrial IoT in the Magic Quadrant.

We believe we are in four areas Gartner in the above report. We look forward to accelerating the development of various industries the to help them achieve their goals, and we will continue to work with world-class partners in the industrial IoT field to ultimately build a better world by supporting sustainable industrial development.

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