ENGINEERINGNET.EU -- Invensys announces an alliance with Microsoft for migrating some of its applications to the Windows Azure cloud.
“By offering cloud-based variants of our process management solutions, we can help our customers lower costs, reduce systems complexity and cut hardware and software investments, while creating a high-performance environment for more agile operations management,” states Ravi Gopinath.
Within the alliance, Microsoft will help Invensys accelerate the development of some of its applications to enable them to run on the cloud.
Initial development activities will extend existing Invensys solutions with managed history and reporting capabilities, as well as business process management on demand.
Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president at Microsoft: “Providing cloud-based reporting and collaboration services allows these customers to pay for what they use, which means they can better scale and manage their technology deployment costs.”
“It’s an attractive model for any customer that has widely distributed operations, limited IT resources or the need to rapidly scale. Customers will have the choice of different usage models, so they pay for only what they need.”
(picture: Invensys, Ravi Gopinath )
BACKGROUNDER
Invensys Operations Management is provider of automation technology, systems, software solutions, services and consulting to the global manufacturing and infrastructure industries. Headquartered in Texas, the company has a workforce of approximately 9,000 employees.
