The News: Siemens launched Siemens Xcelerator Portal at CES 2024, consolidating all Siemens’ API and developer resources, operating on the principles of openness and collaboration that provide developers a unified space to explore and access Siemens and partner APIs. Read the full press release on the Siemens website.
CES 2024: Siemens Ups Developer Profile with Xcelerator Portal
Analyst Take: Siemens shrewdly debuted Siemens Xcelerator Portal at CES 2024 immediately raising its digital ecosystem profile by combining all Siemens’ APIs and developer resources with the primary goal of providing developers a unified space to access and explore Siemens and partner APIs. The debut fully aligns with Siemens announcing new partnerships in AI and immersive engineering to enable the industrial metaverse, highlighting how these technologies are empowering the world’s innovators through its open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator.
Siemens and Sony Working Together to Catalyze Immersive Engineering Apps
I find that the partnership with Sony is a prime example of how the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio can prove indispensable by ensuring that Sony’s new spatial content creation system, using XR head-mounted display with 4K OLED Microdisplays and controllers, can deliver intuitive interaction with 3D objects across immersive engineering environments.
The joint solution enables designers and engineers to create and explore design concepts in a borderless immersive workplace, catalyzing content creation for industrial metaverse applications. With availability targeted for later in 2024, Siemens’ NX Immersive Designer that merges Siemens’ NX software and Sony technology, delivers immersive design and collaborative product engineering capabilities to Siemens’ flagship product engineering solution.
Siemens and AWS Together Building and Scaling Generative AI Apps
Plus, Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are strengthening their partnership and making it easier for businesses of all sizes and industries to build and scale generative AI applications. Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock, a service that offers a choice of foundation models from AI specialists through a single API alongside security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities, with Mendix, the low-code platform that is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
At CES 24, Siemens spotlighted how the alliance is enabling customers to use Siemens Xcelerator to transform the Live, Work, Play, and Make spheres. For example, for Make applications, Blendhub is using Siemens technology to tackle food insecurity and transform food production by deploying and connecting a multi-localized network of food and personalized nutrition factories, moving them closer to ingredients supply and final consumers.
Plus, for Live applications, Siemens unveiled its smart home energy management portfolio, Inhab. The suite of Intelligent Habitat solutions is designed to allow users to have transparency and control over which sources are supplying energy at a given time and how that energy is being distributed throughout the home providing the accuracy and oversight key to lowering energy consumption and utility bills alongside boosting safety and capacity.
From my view, Siemens’ portfolio development and marketing focus on the industrial metaverse ecosystem, including the introduction of its innovative immersive engineering dimension, is fully warranted. According to Deloitte, 92% of surveyed executives said their companies are “experimenting with or implementing at least one metaverse-related use case and, on average, they are currently running more than six.”
Immersive engineering brings advances well beyond traditional 2D practices by using mixed reality (MR) to enable a fully integrated, user-centric virtual space, agilely merging the digital and physical realms. Through the all-new NX Immersive Explorer software from Siemens, users can begin to reap the benefits of Immersive Engineering by exploring the right designs before committing to physical prototyping. In a fully immersive environment, users can interact with every single part of a design model while experiencing the true scale of the object. They can grab, select, hide, view, rotate, or scale any part and view cross-sections of their designs to better understand internal configurations.
Key Takeaway: Siemens Boosts Industrial Metaverse Credentials
Overall, I believe that the availability of the Siemens Xcelerator Portal can play a pivotal role in making the industrial metaverse, such as immersive engineering applications, more accessible to developers and customers to improve their business outcomes and address their real-world challenges on a more sustainable and efficient basis.
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Ron is an experienced, customer-focused research expert and analyst, with over 20 years of experience in the digital and IT transformation markets, working with businesses to drive consistent revenue and sales growth.
Ron holds a Master of Arts in Public Policy from University of Nevada — Las Vegas and a Bachelor of Arts in political science/government from William and Mary.
