Microsoft named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Industrial IoT Platforms | Azure Blog and Updates

As industries all over the world speed up their digital transformation to scale back operational bills, create new service choices, and obtain sustainability targets, industrial IoT platforms are enjoying a foundational position. Microsoft is deeply dedicated to serving to the world’s industries obtain these targets and for a few years we’ve got invested in capabilities to empower this, together with our industrial IoT platform.

That is why 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 Potential 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 help industrial prospects all over the world 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 essentially the most vital elementary to Industrial IoT options. To allow this, we’ve constructed on our many years of safety expertise and created a collection of capabilities for patrons and companions that allow their IT and OT groups to work properly collectively. From chip to cloud, utilizing Azure Energetic Listing, Azure Key Vault, Azure IoT Hub and System Provisioning Service, Azure Sphere, Azure Defender for IoT, and Azure Sentinel, we offer the richest set of safety capabilities out there. Safety isn’t performed, and we proceed to broaden our safety capabilities annually, most lately with our acquisition of ReFirm Labs to offer deep safety scanning of system firmware.
• Open and interoperable: Industrial prospects anticipate selections, not lock-in, and from day one we’ve got embraced open interoperability. Microsoft totally embraces open requirements and open-source and have taken a standards-based method 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 Good Manufacturing Institute, VDMA, The Open Group, bitkom, DIN, A*Star, Labs Community Industries four.zero, ODVA, The Business Web Consortium, ZVEI, Platform Industries four.zero, NAMUR, Open Business four.zero Alliance, and GAIA-X.
• Edge and cloud: The brand new sturdy compute paradigm within the consists of the sting and the cloud working in concord—we imagine the sting is equally vital because the cloud. In Industrial IoT, we’ve got 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 help permits the productiveness and intelligence of the cloud to be distributed and run related or disconnected on the sting.
• Accomplice-led: Because the world’s industries speed up their digital transformations, we imagine that a wealthy and numerous associate ecosystem is named for to offer the hundreds of specialised options utilizing Industrial IoT capabilities. From the earliest days, we’ve got had a partner-led technique in Industrial IoT with the world’s main unbiased software program distributors (ISVs) and world system integrators (GSIs), many you discover together with us within the Gartner IIoT Magic Quadrant.

It was great to see Gartner acknowledge our efforts in these 4 areas. We look ahead to accelerating the world’s industries in attaining 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.