Bayer and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a cloud-based platform called Azure Data Manager for Agriculture. The platform combines Bayer’s agricultural data with Microsoft’s digital infrastructure capabilities to offer better-connected solutions and increased supply chain transparency for the agri-food industry. The partnership aims to break down data silos and drive interoperability across the value chain providing benefits for farmers, companies, and consumers.
Bayer and Microsoft have announced a partnership to develop cloud-based enterprise solutions for the agri-food industry. The platform is called Azure Data Manager for Agriculture and features a collection of agricultural data from Bayer with robust digital infrastructure capabilities from Microsoft. The two companies will offer companies, farmers, and consumers better-connected solutions and increased supply chain transparency to support sustainable agriculture and food production. Bayer’s cloud-based solutions include AgPowered Services and will be available for businesses and organizations from start-ups to global enterprises to license and use for their own internal or customer-facing digital solutions.
The Azure Data Manager for Agriculture will break down data silos and drive interoperability across the value chain, including food, feed, fiber, and fuel. It will become the most extensive connection point of agricultural data and services and accelerate innovation. The cloud offerings also support an ecosystem allowing greater transparency along the whole food production value chain. This transparency, enabled through end-to-end interoperability, would make it easier for consumer goods companies to partner with growers based on how crops are grown and help consumers make more informed purchasing decisions based on origin practices. The potential to support sustainable agriculture and food production can ultimately benefit companies, farmers, consumers, and the planet.
The cloud-based enterprise solutions will benefit farmers seeking to track disease, pest, and weed pressure, apply precision inputs, identify crop growth and production patterns, measure potential yield, track and capture carbon emissions, and analyze heat stress impact, rainfall, hail, and weather data. Companies and organizations will be able to bring their solutions to Azure Data Manager for Agriculture and make them available for licensing. The cloud-based solutions are designed to meet or exceed global data privacy requirements, providing data storage on the world’s most trusted cloud with leading security offerings. Using these cloud-based enterprise solutions, value chain partners will be able to apply insights into supply projections, sustainable sourcing, and ESG reporting.
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