"We are transforming towards becoming a cloud company"

...signifies Mathew Thomas, Country Manager and Managing Director, Siemens Digital Industries Software India. In an interview with Neha Basudkar Ghate, he discusses their evolution and how they aim on penetrating the digital landscape. Excerpts from the interview...

- Neha Basudkar Ghate

Q How do you overview the digital transformation in business recently and how well do you think has Siemens been able to embrace this digital journey?

I think businesses, fundamentally, are looking to become more competitive. If I look at competing countries, which we aspire to compete with, then 25%–30% of your GDP should be from manufacturing. If I look at what’s happened over the last two years, we are transforming towards becoming a cloud company. We are probably the earliest ones among the industrial software companies to do that. The reason that we’ve been able to move well is that we are very uniquely positioned because we can combine the real and the digital worlds because of our presence in the IT and OT segments. If we aim towards becoming the third-largest economy by 2030, our manufacturing industry should be competitive. Siemens is the best partner for this, as we combine the real and the digital worlds with a combination of IT/OT integration using the Siemens Xcelerator platform.

Q Can you tell us more about next-generation solutions based on Siemens’ focus on optimising solutions and working towards them?