Deals
Software Deals Take Center Stage at Europe's Industrial Fair
- Companies from Kuka to ABB are partnering for IoT offerings
- IBM and SAP both are providing backbone software for apps
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European industrial companies including Kuka AG and ABB Ltd. announced partnerships with software behemoths at the Hannover Industrial Fair, as the two once separate industries are realizing the benefits of working more closely together.
The theme at this year’s Hannover Messe, a giant annual gathering of machine makers and engineering companies, is how industrial businesses are connecting up their machines to software platforms, letting the hardware talk to each other to facilitate automation.