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GE, Oracle Inks Industrial Internet Partnership

By TechTaffy Desk

GE and Oracle have inked a strategic partnership focused on building a platform for companies to digitally connect industrial assets across the world. Through this collaboration, the two companies will develop and integrate complementary solutions across their product portfolios. The solution will bring together GE’s Predix platform, used for developing, deploying, operating and monetizing Industrial Internet applications  and Oracle’s enterprise solutions, including the company’s cloud platform and applications, as well its ERP and supply chain management applications.

GE Digital and Oracle will bring their partner ecosystems together to train, certify and implement powered by Predix solutions with Oracle’s Cloud offerings, say the companies.

[Image courtesy: GE]

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