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Increase the agility of your manufacturing and reduce your integration costs—with a standardized database on STACKIT and a sovereign, scalable IT-OT setup.

Challenge: Stagnation, lack of scalability, and high costs

Many industrial companies have already implemented numerous digitalization projects but still work with legacy, cumbersome IT and OT structures. New initiatives therefore repeatedly require integrations, even though the same data sources are often used. The typical consequences are:

Stagnation and lack of scalability

Outdated hardware slows down release cycles and limits the ability to adopt new technologies such as AI or IoT in a timely manner. This significantly restricts the pace of innovation and growth potential.

Complex, fragmented OT landscapes

Many vendor-specific interfaces make it difficult to standardize and reuse integrations.

Data scattered across different systems

The lack of standardized structures and context prevents a comprehensive view of production and costs.

No consistent real-time data

Decisions are delayed and made under conditions of uncertainty because up-to-date information is only available to a limited extent.

Inflexible cost structure

High capital expenditures on hardware and licenses tie up capital, while maintenance and operating costs remain constant even with low usage.

Measurable value: liquidity, time-to-market, and cost efficiency

Use your data foundation as a lever to drive agility and reduce costs. With an industrialized data foundation and a robust cloud infrastructure, you create the basis for measurable improvements in project duration, costs, and flexibility. At the same time, your teams gain the freedom to develop new digital products, services, and data-driven business models—the following benefits demonstrate how this freedom pays off immediately:

  • Preservation of liquidity: Shifting from CapEx to OpEx reduces tied-up capital. Financial resources remain available for strategic initiatives and the core business, rather than being tied up in hardware for the long term.
  • Significantly shorter time-to-market: New digital products can be launched much faster. This gives companies a decisive competitive advantage and allows them to benefit early on from the first-mover effect.
  • Savings of 20 to 30% on infrastructure costs: By avoiding over-provisioning, infrastructure costs can be significantly reduced.

Solution: Unified Namespace on a sovereign cloud infrastructure

Consolidate your OT data into a unified namespace and make it available to all relevant applications. On STACKIT, this results in a sovereign, cloud-native platform. 

An industrial data orchestration solution connects numerous device models and protocols and transforms the data into a consistent, hierarchical data model. A rule engine processes events in real time—for example, for alarms, aggregations, or streaming to downstream systems. Clearly defined rules for the quality, security, and monitoring of data flows ensure that all plants operate according to the same standards. 

This creates a reusable architectural pattern that you can gradually roll out to additional production lines, plants, and country organizations—without having to reinvent the wheel for every project.

Competitive advantage: A sovereign, highly available, and compliantly operated platform

EU data sovereignty

Hosting in German and Austrian data centers, without extraterritorial access rights such as those under the US CLOUD Act.

Audited compliance foundation

NIS2 readiness and a BSI C5 certificate provide a robust foundation for audits and regulatory compliance.

The foundation: Enablers and technology for scalable use cases

Strengthen your IT and OT landscape with a clearly defined technical foundation on STACKIT. This transforms isolated integration projects into a scalable platform for many more data-driven applications:

Hero Image Compute Engine

STACKIT Compute Engine

Elastic computing platform for data processing, real-time analytics, and AI models.

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STACKIT Kubernetes Engine

Orchestration of containerized microservices—from connectivity and data enrichment to APIs and dashboards.

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STACKIT Object Storage

Secure, cost-effective storage of historical production data, log files, and event streams.
 

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STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex

Managed database service for metadata, configurations, and reporting.
 

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ISV Partner Ecosystem

Seamless integration of Industrial IoT solutions as a data orchestration layer for the unified namespace and complex rule engines 

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