Microsoft has acquired Solair, an Italian company that has been delivering Internet of Things (IoT) services to customers across a number of industries, including manufacturing, retail, food & beverage and transportation. The financial aspects of the deal were not revealed though.
Microsoft posted on its official blog: Solair shares our ambition for helping customers harness their untapped data and create new intelligence with IoT, and this acquisition supports our strategy to deliver the most complete IoT offering for enterprises.
Solair’s IoT customisation and deployment solutions, built on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform, are engineered to help businesses in any industry utilise IoT to run more efficiently and profitably. For example, Solair has brought the power of IoT to the Rancilio Group’s full line of espresso machines, allowing the Italian manufacturer to remotely monitor machines resulting in greater efficiency across the supply chain. Using the power of Cloud-based data and analytics, Solair has helped the Rancilio Group reduce costs and increase revenue.
The integration of Solair’s technology into the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite will continue to enhance our complete IoT offering for the enterprise, the blog post added.
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