Siemens on AWS
A global leader in electrification, automation, and digitization, Siemens AG has driven innovation across industries for over 175 years. It uses a range of Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies to carry on that tradition of transformation—bringing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to railways and factories, developing intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into its cybersecurity platform, and more. From modernizing data infrastructure and analytics capabilities with AWS Glue and Amazon Athena to using Amazon Neptune and AWS Lambda to create Building Twin from Siemens. Each step the organization takes in the AWS Cloud brings new efficiency, value, and insight to improve operations for Siemens and its customers.
Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), automation and digitization leader Siemens AG helps customers realize value through digital transformation. From rail operators and manufacturers to energy suppliers and healthcare providers, organizations across industries are improving efficiency and driving innovation powered by Siemens and AWS technologies.
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Data Solutions
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Continuous Innovation
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Migration
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Security Compliance
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Machine Learning
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Business Transformation
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Business Applications
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Data Solutions
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2024
Siemens Builds Datalake2Go on AWS to Analyze Disparate Data Globally
Collecting and analyzing data from not only its own operations, but that of its customers, partners, and suppliers across the globe is no small feat for Siemens. The company uses nearly 30 different Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, including AWS Glue and AWS Lambda, to run its Datalake2Go platform. This provides Siemens and its customers with a modern, standardized infrastructure that can scale globally and make better use of data.
2023Siemens Builds Data Lake 2 Go to Manage Data for 300,000 Associates in over 200 Countries
Siemens’ associates save 15,180 hours a year spent on manual search thanks to a new machine learning platform for automatic search and mapping. Here, chief information officer Hanna Hennig talks about using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop the Intelligent Document Mapping solution that’s driving both time and cost savings for Siemens.
2020Siemens Smart Infrastructure Builds Cloud-Native Applications on AWS
Siemens Smart Infrastructure used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop Building Twin from Siemens, a platform that ingests and presents building-generated data, agnostic of source sensors and systems. Here, Peter Löffler, vice president of Siemens Smart Infrastructure’s Trends and Industry Affairs unit, talks about how AWS Professional Services provided support to help create the platform using services such as Amazon Neptune.
2019Siemens Mobility Helps Rail Operators Avoid Downtime and Unplanned Maintenance
A leader in transport solutions, Siemens Mobility is always looking for new ways to get value from data. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) data solutions, including AWS Glue and Amazon EMR, it created an open ecosystem for rail data integration, cutting unplanned downtime by up to 50 percent.
Our AWS data lake enables not only data scientists and software developers but also about 250 non-technical employees to create custom applications and reports that help maximize the value of the data."
Friedrich Gloeckner
Data Services Architecture Team Leader, Siemens Mobility
2019Siemens Smart Infrastructure Breaks Building Data Out of Silos on AWS
Using Amazon Neptune and AWS Lambda, and with support from AWS Professional Services, Siemens Smart Infrastructure built Building Twin from Siemens. The platform democratizes data and gives customers control of all their building systems through a single interface, helping Siemens deliver greater value. Internally the solution is a success too, removing engineering bottlenecks and allowing faster onboarding of new customers.
One of the biggest benefits of running on AWS is the ability to democratize data so that anyone with a good idea can build new customer value, regardless of their level of technical knowledge.”
Peter Löffler
Vice President of Trends and Industry Affairs, Siemens Smart Infrastructure
2019Safer Railways Through Better Data Analytics
Siemens uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Railigent—an application for collecting live data from trains, which helps rail operators make informed decisions fast. With services such as Amazon Athena and AWS IoT, data scientists have access to a self-service platform, which cuts development time, reduces complexity, and increases the speed and efficiency of business insight.
2018Siemens Power and Gas Use Matillion ETL for Redshift from AWS Marketplace to Speed Data Analytics
Siemens Power and Gas division was looking for ways to accelerate its data analytics and customer digitalization projects. After choosing Amazon Redshift, it wanted to build out the solution with best-in-class software. It found Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift through AWS Marketplace, which took less than 1 hour to try, buy, and implement within Siemens’ existing AWS environments.
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Continuous Innovation
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2022
Siemens Helps Shape the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” by Combining Its Software and AWS Cloud Capabilities
As a leader in industrial software and automation, Siemens is shaping the fourth industrial revolution. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics technologies, the company is accelerating customers’ digital transformation and providing access to powerful industrial software as a service. Cedrik Neike, Siemens Digital Industries CEO, takes the stage at AWS re:Invent 2022 to talk about the critical steps in the journey so far with AWS.
2022Siemens Helps Companies Become Digital Enterprises
Driving digital transformation for its customers is a key motivator for Siemens, and using Amazon Web Services (AWS) it’s able to accelerate time to deployment and value for businesses around the world. Global access, security, and scalability are among the many reasons Siemens chooses to collaborate with AWS, says Tosh Tambe, vice president, software as a service portfolio.
Making our software and tools more accessible, more scalable, more flexible is really where our collaboration with AWS has been really transformational to our business and the businesses of our customers.”
Tosh Tambe
Vice President, Software as a Service Portfolio, Siemens
2016AWS Helps Siemens Deliver Better Care at a Lower Cost
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics is helping to advance human health by innovating in the cloud. Here, Andreas Heid, cloud and applications senior director, talks about how Siemens is driving improvements in areas such as precision medicine with access to powerful, cost-effective data processing and analytics using Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies.
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Migration
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2024
Migrating a 9-TB Database to the Cloud Using Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances with Siemens
Modern large enterprises often adopt SAP to manage enterprise resources and improve their productivity and operational efficiency. However, global technology company Siemens AG (Siemens) found that as its user and data volumes grew, its offline infrastructure lacked the scalability to meet the increasing demand of its SAP database, and the company knew cloud migration had become a necessary strategy. Siemens also hoped that the cloud migration could help the company get through development and other businesses in the cloud, making it simpler to analyze AI and big data. By migrating the SAP system to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the branch of Siemens in China (Siemens China) has improved disaster recovery capability and business continuity, thereby meeting Siemens’ needs of global strategy alignment, cost optimization, and future resilience.
2018Siemens Migrates to the Public Cloud Efficiently with the Help of AWS Support
Ulrich Hansmair, team leader—Cloud First, Siemens, talks about the high-quality support from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that helped the organization migrate to the cloud. With insight into different techniques to manage infrastructure from AWS Support, Siemens made its move seamless.
It’s really, I would say, one of the best support channels I’ve ever seen.”
Ulrich Hansmair
Team Leader—Cloud First, Siemens
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Security Compliance
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2022
Siemens Strengthens Security and Enhances Productivity Using AWS
Using a suite of Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools, including AWS Security Hub, has helped Siemens modernize its security infrastructure. With a consolidated dashboard and automatic notifications, vulnerabilities can be identified and addressed fast. In addition to its strengthened security posture, the company has increased productivity, and improved communication and collaboration.
Pulling data individually from each source and doing our own correlations was difficult. Migrating to AWS Security Hub and Amazon GuardDuty gave us a central view into that data.”
Scott Schwartz
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Siemens
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Machine Learning
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2019
Siemens Finds New Value in Employee Surveys Using AWS Machine Learning Services
Siemens built a fully automated solution for survey-response processing and translation based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine learning technologies. Using Amazon Translate, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon Comprehend, it cut survey processing time by 75 percent and costs by 66 percent.
By using Amazon Translate and other AWS services, we are getting translation, processing, and analysis for less than one euro per interview.”
Christoph Malassa
Head of Analytics and Intelligence Solutions, Siemens
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Business Transformation
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2019
Siemens Uses AWS to Reduce Power Plant Alerts by 90 Percent
Siemens built a serverless solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve monitoring at power plants. Using AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB, and working with AWS Professional Services, the Siemens team created a prototype in just 3 months. With automated alert monitoring, analysis, and actionable alert-reduction recommendations, its power plant customers can cost-effectively manage equipment and operations.
With the serverless AWS platform, we decreased customer control system alerts 90 percent and reduced infrastructure costs 85 percent.”
Stefan Lichtenberger
Program Manager, Siemens Gas and Power
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Business Applications
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2020
Siemens AG Launches Industry-Leading EnergyIP MDM Application on AWS
Siemens’ EnergyIP meter data management (MDM) application is used by more than 200 electricity, gas, and water utility companies to manage over 90 million meters. The company wanted to improve efficiency and customer service by offering a cloud-hosted version of MDM in addition to the on-premises version. Using AWS, it navigated a complex migration, reducing installation time for customers from 4 months to 2 hours.
Using Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for the backend enabled us to run and install EnergyIP in a self-healing way."
James Travers
Business Analyst, Siemens
In the News
Siemens Smart Infrastructure Chooses AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider for SAP Environments
Siemens Smart Infrastructure becomes the first company within Siemens AG to move production-scale, business-critical SAP environments, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems, to the cloud.
About Siemens
Based in Munich, Siemens AG is an international technology and industrial manufacturing company that produces components for energy, healthcare, and other industries. With 320,000 employees, it is Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing firm and a leader in industrial automation and software.
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