C3 IoT and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate AI in the Enterprise
April 10 2018 - 3:04PM
Business Wire
C3 IoT Platform to increase customer value,
provide more intelligent business solutions with Microsoft Azure as
a preferred cloud provider
C3 IoT and Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday a strategic
partnership to deliver new technology developments and go-to-market
initiatives that accelerate enterprise AI and IoT application
development.
As part of this partnership, the companies will create a “better
together” solution, comprising the C3 IoT Platform™, a low-code,
high-productivity PaaS for scaling AI and IoT across enterprises,
fully integrated to operate on Microsoft Azure. C3 IoT will
leverage Microsoft Azure as a preferred cloud platform and tap into
the power of its intelligent capabilities. The companies will
conduct co-marketing and co-selling strategies that rapidly scale
distribution globally, as well as intensive training for dedicated
teams to speed customers’ time to value.
Close collaboration between Microsoft and C3 IoT will help
enable customers to more rapidly develop and deploy AI-based
applications for transformative use cases, such as AI predictive
maintenance, dynamic inventory optimization, precision healthcare,
and CRM.
“The partnership between Microsoft and C3 IoT is significant in
that it allows us to optimize our existing investments in data
infrastructure while accelerating time to value of AI-based
applications that enable Shell to better serve our customers with
even more agility and efficiency,” said Erik Betz, Vice President,
Architecture, Platforms, and Data, Shell.
“With this partnership, two market leaders are joining forces to
drive digital transformation at the world’s leading organizations,”
said Thomas M. Siebel, C3 IoT CEO. “Combining the market reach of
Microsoft, the amazing power of Microsoft Azure, and the capability
of the C3 IoT AI platform, we will dramatically accelerate the
adoption of AI, IoT, and elastic cloud computing globally.”
“C3 IoT has an exciting vision, proven technology, and
demonstrated customer success across industries, making them a
great partner for implementing 3M’s digital transformation
initiatives,” said H.C. Shin, 3M Vice Chair and Executive Vice
President. “With tangible business results from the initial
predictive healthcare and supply chain analytics applications, we
plan on scaling the C3 IoT and Microsoft Azure solution across our
enterprise. In this way, 3M is combining data science into material
science, transforming how we design and deliver products and better
serve our customers.”
“AI is one of the most transformative technology paradigms of
our time in its ability to empower companies, societies, and
economies to achieve more,” said Judson Althoff, Executive Vice
President, Worldwide Commercial Business, Microsoft. “C3 IoT’s
proven technology and strong customer relationships make them an
ideal partner in helping drive forward AI-based solutions built on
the intelligent cloud.”
The C3 IoT Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure and
fully integrated with a rich set of Azure services, including Azure
IoT Hub, Azure Machine Learning, and big data and advanced
analytics solutions.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
About C3 IoT
C3 IoT is the world’s leading AI and IoT software platform for
digital transformation. C3 IoT delivers a comprehensive platform as
a service (PaaS) for the rapid design, development, and deployment
of the largest-scale big data, predictive analytics, AI, and IoT
applications for any business value chain. C3 IoT also provides a
family of configurable and extensible SaaS products developed with
and operating on its PaaS, including predictive maintenance, fraud
detection, sensor network health, supply chain optimization,
investment planning, and customer engagement.
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