Siemens makes the right connections That’s the situation at Siemens AG. The 174-year-old company’s rapid pivot to Industry 4.0 and becoming a highly advanced industrial manufacturer a few years ago was largely enabled by the Cloud Continuum. Siemens made the decision to help engineering and manufacturing companies use vast amounts of data from their factories, equipment and production processes to operate more ef昀椀ciently—all in alignment with the company’s Industry 4.0 vision. To do so, it recognized those companies would need to embrace digital transformation—driven by automation, edge and cloud computing. It also understood those companies use a diverse landscape of different platforms, so offering cross-platform interoperability with innovation would be important. Siemens chose to proceed with a multi-cloud, best-of-breed approach, working with multiple cloud providers to broaden the choice of platforms offered to companies, as well as investing in an advanced set of capabilities across those providers to continually optimize and improve manufacturing. Siemens chose to proceed with a multi-cloud, best-of- breed approach. Ever–ready for every opportunity 16