people locally to collect data from those machines, because you have that real-time information available to you. ME: How key is this to the IIoT and smart manufacturing? Shah: If you listen to our leadership, we’ve been talking about our Connected Enterprise mes- sage and the strategy that we’re execut- ing that’s built around this information layer or IIoT or Manufacturing 4.0—you pick any of those initiatives that are across the globe, China 2025, they all pertain to the same thing. You’re looking for a secure environment that allows you to take data from shop-floor devices up to central sites and analyze them through enterprise-level tools. We’re working to deliver this content, and we’ve improved our architecture with high-performance control sys- tems. We’ve also implemented the best practices we have learned through our partnership with Cisco to improve our architecture and move data on a standard or modified Ethernet network, accessing that data through the cloud using the Microsoft Azure platform. We’ve made a lot of strategic invest- ments in improving our products, but we’ve also gone after partners who have developed a lot of core competency in this space, and partnered with them to deliver more of a well-rounded solution to our customers. ME: Are partnerships really the key to success here? Shah: The reality of it is the software itself has gotten very complex, the systems are complex, and everybody has their own core competency. On our own, if we try to figure out all the best practices in cybersecurity threats and network infrastructure, we could prob- ably arrive at that point, but wouldn’t we want to use Cisco’s leadership in that space? So we’ve leveraged expertise, but we also understand that partnership alone is not sufficient,
because then it becomes an exercise of just connecting the dots in the architecture. We wanted to take a step forward and build technology within our systems that enable a much- better integration. When you look at our control system and
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