Siemens Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Dominating the Integrated Digital Platform Market with 20 Percent of the Market Share

The diverse capabilities offered by Siemens' unified Xcelerator platform accelerates the digital transformation of companies of all sizes

SANTA CLARA,California,Feb. 16,2021 --Based on its recent analysis of the global digital transformation market,Frost & Sullivan recognizes Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) with the2020 Global Market Leadership Award for capturing nearly 20 percent of the integrated digital platform market. To help industrial customers overcome the issues caused by functional siloes and to accelerate their digital transformation journey,Siemens consolidates its flagship products into its Xcelerator portfolio. This solution suite allows customers to consolidate around an environment to easily manage the different areas that affect a product lifecycle,including design,simulation,PLM,MOM,IIoT,and Cloud.

2020 Global Digital Transformation Market Leadership Award

Xcelerator integrates a wide range of software components,services,and applications to meet the industry-specific needs of customers that are looking to become digital enterprises. While market competitors offer stand-alone software to handle different industrial activities such as design,engineering,and manufacturing,Siemens combined its existing portfolio of software tools and services to give customers a pathway that unifies their product lifecycle and associated processes. The portfolio comprises Siemens' flagship solutions,including NX,Teamcenter,Simcenter,Opcenter,Tecnomatix,MindSphere,Capital,Expedition,and a host of electronic design automation solutions.

"The Xcelerator platform focuses on three main areas of digital transformation: comprehensive digital twin,open ecosystem,and personalized and adaptable solutions," said Rohit Karthikey anIndustry Analyst. "In the virtual world,Siemens offers mechanical,software and electrical design solutions,a simulation platform for design and manufacturing systems,and virtual commissioning. For the physical domain,its portfolio includes R&D and prototype testing,automation and controls,commissioning of manufacturing systems,as well a complete Industrial Internet as a Service solution.

Uniquely,the Xcelerator portfolio consists of embedded tools and databases,integrates across the client's existing information technology (IT),operational technology (OT),and engineering technology (ET) infrastructure without disrupting the workflow. Another unique feature of the Xcelerator portfolio is that it allows users to build personalized applications that can record performance data and share the insights with design and manufacturing teams.

"Siemens has built the Xcelerator strategy on the cloud-based Mendix low-code application platform,which enables industrial customers to create and deploy apps specific to their requirement across product lifecycle,or supply chain," noted Karthikeyan. "Its human-centered innovation helps industrial customers adapt to the current global COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate their journey towards becoming a digital enterprise."

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About Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens)

Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering,manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow. The Xcelerator portfolio helps companies of all sizes create and leverage the digital twin that can provide organizations with new insights,opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services,visit www.sw.siemens.com or follow us on LinkedIn,Twitter,Facebook and Instagram.

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