Schneider Electric Announces New Cloud-Based Software Development Capabilities
The software combines StruxureWare™ Resource Advisor software and Windows Azure cloud computing designed to create flexible, agile, and cost-effective solutions for customers.
Schneider Electric has announced another milestone in its alliance with Microsoft — the ability to develop custom, cloud-based energy management and sustainability software for customers across diversified industries. By combining the technology foundation of Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare™ Resource Advisor on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform, the companies can deliver best in class technology tools that improve the performance of customer processes and operations. By expanding Schneider Electric’s ability to rapidly deploy public, private and hybrid cloud solutions, the partnership with Microsoft enables increased innovation in energy efficiency, accelerating development, reducing costs and increasing reliability and security of global offers for customers.
“We are seeing a major shift in the industry away from one-size-fits-all solutions, and the cloud-enabled capabilities of the combined StruxureWare Resource Advisor and Windows Azure technology allow us to deliver right-sized tools based on customers’ specific energy management needs,” said Pascal Brosset, chief technology officer, Schneider Electric. “By leveraging key aspects of our respective technologies, we’re able to produce high performance, cloud-based solutions, creating true value and competitive advantages for customers across multiple industries.”