Industrial companies, such as those in manufacturing, energy, mining, agriculture, and transportation, are increasingly looking to fuel digital transformation—from optimizing operations to accelerating design to reinventing supply chains. For these organizations, data has become the connective tissue that holds their complex industrial systems together.

In efforts to collect, analyze, and make sense of data, industrial companies have increasingly adopted new technologies, such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), advanced analytics, and machine learning (ML).