This publish was co-authored by Moe Tanabian, Chief Product Officer, Cognite.
Long-time companions Microsoft and Cognite have efficiently delivered digital transformation worth to industrial prospects in power, industrial carbon administration, manufacturing, and renewables globally. In a landmark new collaboration, Cognite and Microsoft are excited to announce an growth of their strategic partnership to carry enterprise knowledge operations to the generative AI period, from the store flooring all the best way to the highest flooring. For the primary time, enterprise and industrial—info expertise (IT), operational expertise (OT), and engineering expertise (ET)—converge for knowledge operations and AI worth.
AI Copilot for Asset Performance Management
New options from Cognite Data Fusion and Microsoft
Cognite, world chief in industrial DataOps software program, is collaborating with Microsoft to combine its flagship product Cognite Data Fusion with Microsoft’s knowledge platform Fabric, to ship a unified enterprise DataOps answer that spans the complete enterprise, with vertical {industry} capabilities for industrial (similar to engineering expertise (ET) and OT) knowledge workloads enabled by means of industrial copilots. Data might be obtainable by means of each Cognite Data Fusion and Microsoft Fabric for patrons to leverage Cognite Data Fusion for driving selections in asset centric situations, for instance Asset Performance Optimization, and Fabric to generate insights to run their enterprise.
By combining Cognite’s industry-specific capabilities with Microsoft’s enterprise-scale, AI-focused knowledge platform, this partnership is delivering a state-of-the-art platform that considerably accelerates time to worth and scalability for industrial use circumstances, whereas addressing the complexities of commercial and enterprise knowledge fragmentation, expertise, safety, and compliance within the age of AI. By leveraging the strengths of the 2 firms, we’re set to advance the digital transformation of industries worldwide.
“Our collaboration with Microsoft is more than a convergence of platforms; it’s about aligning our vision of empowering industries to drive productivity through digital transformation. Cognite’s robust industrial data operations and contextualization capabilities, combined with the scale and intelligence of Azure, will unlock new frontiers in industrial AI. Our customers have asked us for IT, OT, and ET convergence on DataOps—we are pleased to now offer that together with Microsoft Fabric.”
Moe Tanabian, Chief Product Officer of Cognite
“At Microsoft, we are pleased to work with industry leaders like Cognite to extend our platforms into specific domains and business processes that are critical to industries like Energy with complex industrial requirements. We are pleased to see Cognite integrate their industrial data operations platform, Cognite Data Fusion, with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365, and the Microsoft OpenAI Service to unlock value in industry verticals such as Industrial Carbon Management.”
Matthew Kerner, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Cloud for Industry
Cognite understands {industry} necessities and is a strategic accomplice for industrial knowledge operations
The world’s asset intensive industries are going by means of an unparalleled interval of change, shifting in direction of a digital industrial future enabling power transition and extra environment friendly and sustainable industries.
Cognite has carved out a phase within the industrial sector worldwide as a purveyor of digital transformation, notably inside power and manufacturing. Its core product, Cognite Data Fusion, is a results of its deep {industry} perception, providing a platform that not solely organizes advanced knowledge from all kinds of commercial (similar to OT and ET) sources, but additionally turns it into actionable intelligence.
The significance of Cognite Data Fusion in industrial knowledge administration may be attributed to numerous distinctive capabilities:
- Sub second efficiency for actual time resolution making.
- Out-of-the-box connectivity with near 100 totally different industrial techniques and software program.
- Processing of commercial (OT) knowledge varieties, engineering diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), 3D (for instance computer-aided design (CAD), level clouds, and photogrammetry), and large-scale and excessive frequency timeseries knowledge.
- Data contextualization with explicit concentrate on industrial knowledge.
- Flexible help for industrial knowledge modeling, together with {industry} commonplace knowledge fashions (for instance, CHIFOS, ISO15904, and extra.)
- High efficiency industrial data graph as a solution to unify industrial knowledge in nicely outlined knowledge fashions for ease of entry and real-time knowledge consumption.
- Built-in tooling to help industry-specific wants, together with help for knowledge science, AI, and laptop imaginative and prescient.
- Software growth kits (SDKs) and connectors accelerating the event of commercial purposes; each low code and no code and conventional software program growth.
Furthermore, a singular worth proposition of Cognite lies in its user-centric strategy for industrial area specialists. Cognite Data Fusion stands out for its intuitive interface, permitting customers throughout a company to leverage industrial knowledge with out the necessity for deep technical experience. This is even additional enhanced by infusing the newest AI companies from Microsoft into interfaces and in new choices like the commercial Cognite Data Fusion copilots that have been developed by Cognite in partnership with Microsoft leveraging Azure OpenAI Service, constructing purposes that make the most of this contextualized knowledge and supply resolution making is even less complicated and quicker. This democratization of commercial knowledge is pivotal, enabling swift, knowledgeable decision-making throughout all ranges of a enterprise.
Microsoft Fabric drives AI-powered industrial resolution making
Prepare your knowledge for AI innovation with Microsoft Fabric—now usually obtainable
Fabric is an end-to-end, unified analytics platform which might meet the calls for of contemporary industrial purposes within the age of AI. It is part of the Microsoft Cloud companies, which supplies strong help for a wide range of use circumstances—from knowledge storage and administration to superior analytics and machine studying.
The significance of Fabric in resolution making purposes that mixes enterprise, operational, and engineering knowledge may be attributed to a number of key options:
- Complete analytics platform: Fabric can reshape how your groups work with knowledge by bringing everybody collectively on a single, AI-powered platform constructed for the period of AI. Fabric combines the most effective of Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Data Factory to create a single, unified software program as a service (SaaS) platform with seven core workloads—every purpose-built for particular personas and particular duties. By making a single platform with instruments for each knowledge skilled in a unified expertise and structure, Fabric can scale back the standard price and energy of integration and simplify governance and billing.
- Open and lake-centric: Fabric’s unified, multi-cloud knowledge lake, OneLake, is robotically wired into each Fabric workload and designed that can assist you simplify knowledge administration and scale back knowledge duplication.
- AI-powered: With Copilot in Fabric, you need to use pure language to create dataflows and pipelines, write SQL statements, construct experiences, and even develop machine studying fashions.
- Built for an information tradition: Fabric was constructed to assist foster an information tradition—enabling anybody to rapidly go from knowledge sitting in a lake to beautiful Power BI visuals embedded in a Microsoft 365 app. Fabric seamlessly integrates with the Microsoft 365 purposes individuals use day by day like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, PowerLevel, Excel, and extra to enhance decision-making and drive affect.
- Support for operational and enterprise knowledge: For many enterprise purposes, the power to include course of time collection and occasion knowledge together with different knowledge sources is crucial for operational effectivity and well timed decision-making. Fabric’s streaming knowledge storage and processing companies speed up the event of purposes that may make the most of the commercial operations knowledge from platforms like Cognite Data Fusion for enterprise resolution making.
- Unified knowledge governance: Integrated with Microsoft Purview, Fabric supplies instruments for unified knowledge governance, making it simpler for organizations to handle, monitor, and safe knowledge throughout numerous purposes and platforms. This is essential for sustaining knowledge integrity and high quality in advanced industrial settings.
- Diverse ecosystem of companions: Microsoft has an {industry} main ecosystem of companions that gives industrial purposes on the Azure platform. Combining these knowledge sources with the operational knowledge from Cognite Data Fusion opens alternatives to optimize the end-to-end resolution making for industrial workflows. The workflows span from “subsurface” knowledge from Azure Data Manager for Energy (utilizing OSDU compliant knowledge and APIs) to the commercial operations knowledge from knowledge sources in Industrial Carbon Management, Hydrocarbon Production Operations, and past.
Microsoft and Cognite: A strategic partnership journey
Elevating the profitable multi-year partnership between Microsoft and Cognite, the expanded partnership is structured round a visionary three-horizon strategy, guaranteeing a progressive and strategic collaboration.
The partnership between Microsoft and Cognite is about to converge enterprise and industrial knowledge operations, making a scalable, AI-driven platform that meets the calls for of contemporary industries. As Moe Tanabian of Cognite places it, “Together with Microsoft, we are not just engineering a platform but pioneering an ecosystem that propels industrial data operations into a new era.” Matthew Kerner of Microsoft echoes this sentiment, “This is the beginning of a journey that will transform the industrial landscape, leveraging the combined strengths of Cognite Data Fusion and Microsoft Fabric to empower our customers.”
Stay tuned as we proceed to innovate and paved the way in converged enterprise and industrial knowledge operations, considerably accelerating time to worth and scalability for each enterprise and industrial use circumstances, unlocking new prospects and driving enterprise and operational productiveness by means of digital transformation.
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Kadri Umay serves as a Principal Program Manager throughout the Office of the CTO in Microsoft Cloud for Industry, within the Energy group. In this position, he’s accountable for figuring out and creating alternatives with prospects and companions to reinforce Microsoft’s product portfolio within the power sector. His focus areas embody Industrial Carbon and Methane Management, AI purposes, the event of patented answer architectures, and the institution of {industry} requirements. He is an IASA CITA distinguished architect, member of the OSDU Management Committee and holds the place of vice chair throughout the OPC Foundation Carbon Capture and Storage working group.
In his present position as Director, Ecosystem Enablement, as a member of the CTO group for Energy, Kapil identifies, builds, and nurtures an ecosystem of high-impact partnerships, investments, and acquisitions to understand product imaginative and prescient. He has been with Microsoft for practically 5 years and brings greater than 25 years of expertise in a number of industries. Before becoming a member of the Energy group, Kapil labored for the Microsoft Corp Business Development group, driving AI options in Energy and Manufacturing verticals.
Christoph Schittko is an innovator who has been experimenting with new applied sciences because the 8bit period. He leads the innovation group for Microsoft’s Energy Engineering group, the place his group creates options based mostly on Microsoft’s newest applied sciences. His present mission is to deal with knowledge challenges, and to carry AI and {industry} requirements to the power {industry}.