Capgemini and Microsoft to provide Cloud native Digital Twin solutions to the businesses

 

Capgemini is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver a cloud-native, serverless Azure-based digital twin platform.

The platform known by the name of ‘ReflectIOD’ is ‘secure and highly scalable and will leverage the architecture and technological components from the Azure suite to help organizations become efficient and drive sustainable business value.

Jean-Pierre Petit, Digital Manufacturing and Supply Chain Group Offer Leader at Capgemini, said, "Incremental use-cases and a data-driven approach are key to successfully deploying digital twins in the field. Scalable and configurable by design, the deployment of this new platform will make it possible to drive sustainable business value for organizations by delivering shorter turnaround times, breaking down silos within an organization, and improving operational efficiency. Together with Microsoft’s cloud expertise, we’re confident in enabling organizations to rethink their operations and shape the manufacturing and business ecosystem of tomorrow."

Çağlayan Arkan, Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales Lead, Manufacturing and Supply Chain at Microsoft, said, "Our collaboration with Capgemini offers a seamless opportunity for operators to capture and derive more value from data created across the full asset lifecycle. By leveraging cloud services and the power of digital twins, manufacturers can move from systems of record to systems of reality, driving unique and accelerated competitive advantage at scale".

A digital twin is regarded as a real-time representation of the virtual world that serves as a digital counterpart for its practical applications such as system stimulation, testing, maintenance, and monitoring.

Both companies said that the new digital twin’s platform would also enable enterprises to meet the ever-growing needs of the standardized brownfields management, that is, operations of an already built infrastructure as opposed to a Greenfield or new asset to be constructed, throughout their life cycle and across ecosystems.

The new offering can be customized for different industries or organizations, leveraging Azure Digital Twins and Azure IoT while also offering value-added services to improve operations and maintenance.