Siemens launched an open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator. It is marketed as a platform that should accelerate digital transformation and value creation for customers of all sizes in the industry, buildings, grids, and mobility.
The business platform makes the digital transformation easier, faster, and more scalable. Xcelerator includes a curated portfolio of 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.
“Siemens Xcelerator will make it easier than ever before for companies to navigate digital transformation - faster and at scale. By combining the real and the digital worlds across operational and information technology, we empower customers and partners to boost productivity, and competitiveness, and scale up innovations,“ said Roland Busch, President, and CEO of Siemens. “Today’s launch of Siemens Xcelerator, this week’s acquisition of Brightly Software, and our expanded partnership with NVIDIA are major milestones in implementing our strategy to accelerate high-value growth.“
Siemens also announced the first new SaaS offering as part of the Xcelerator. Building X is a new smart building suite to create a single source of truth (SSOT) that takes the 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.
Burra was created as a platform for consolidating IT services companies in Southeast Europe, with a commercial focus on Western Europe and the United States. Its first members, Devōt, Tacta and CoreLine, continue to run their existing businesses while integration is planned gradually, primarily through new projects. Sven Marušić says the aim is not to turn founders into corporate employees, but to build a larger organisation in which they remain shareholders and drivers of growth.
Telecom operators are no longer using AI only for network optimisation and routine operations. They are applying it to faster product development and customer conversations. Matija Ražem says AI enables prototypes in hours, quicker market testing, and automation of many standard support questions. The next step may be a world where personal digital agents interact with agents from telecoms, banks and other large organisations.
ReversingLabs is developing agent-based approaches to security operations, while warning that the expertise needed to manage such systems will become even more critical.
