94 VIEWPOINT Creating a Smart Digital Reality with Microsoft technology MARCELO PAGELLA: HEXAGON ASSET LIFECYCLE INTELLIGENCE Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence is using Microsoft AI and cloud technology to transform industrial operations using real-time, AI-powered data insights from both the physical and digital worlds Across the industrial sector, organisations are grappling with the same challenge – how to move on from outdated, manual and siloed data practices. The answer is simple and complex in equal measure: digital transformation. Digitalisation enables industrial operations to grow and thrive. There are countless exciting opportunities, but capitalising on them is not always simple. You need to be equipped with the right tools and know-how, brought about by close strategic collaborations between industry experts. This is the foundation of Hexagon’s longstanding alliance with Microsoft. Since the early 1990s, this collaboration has enabled us to cross many key milestones. Our product development teams work together and, as Microsoft technology evolves, so do our projects leveraging these digital tools. Notably, Microsoft has played a crucial role in the development and deployment of our Smart Digital Reality vision. Hexagon’s Smart Digital Reality brings the physical and digital worlds together, with data at the core. By harnessing the right technologies and sensor software systems, organisations tapping into the Smart Digital Reality ensure they are capturing optimised, actionable data. Industries can analyse, contextualise and visualise data into a unified, real-time view of both physical and digital realities. Hexagon’s HxGN SDx2 is one of the key solutions that drives the Smart Digital Reality. This multi-tenant software-as-a-service solution is cloud-native, integrates real-time data and advanced analytics, and is hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform. Implementing the solution in a largescale facility increases data visibility and predictability, improves time and cost savings, boosts team collaboration and facilitates smarter decision-making. Creating this smart reality would not be possible without the Microsoft collaboration. When we released HxGN SDx2 on Azure in 2024, Darryl Willis, corporate vice president of energy and resources industry at Microsoft, said: “Our collaboration with Hexagon exemplifies the transformative power of combining technology and industry expertise to deliver actionable AI-powered insights.” Collaboration with Microsoft’s cloud-based services continues to be fundamental in helping us to realise our Smart Digital Reality because it enables our digital portfolio to be multi-tenant, scalable and flexible. These traits are foundational to who we are as a company. By combining the best minds and innovations from both companies, we have built a digital toolkit for our customers worldwide – many of which are essential, large-scale organisations that contribute to all of our day-to-day lives. With smart, real-time insights, these industry giants get a clearer look into their operations than ever before. “ Hexagon’s Smart Digital Reality brings the physical and digital worlds together, with data at the core”
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