Tivi: Nortal featured as a key partner in Microsoft’s Industrial AI Partner Guide – Finnish expertise contributes globally

Finnish IT Magazine Tivi reports on Microsoft featuring Nortal as a key partner in its Industrial AI Partner Guide. Nortal and Microsoft have collaborated since 2006, and this marks a continuation of long-standing work in industrial data, cloud, and AI.

This demonstrates our ability to scale industrial AI pilots into operational solutions, improving efficiency, safety, and resource management for businesses. It also places us among a trusted and carefully selected group of system integrators supporting Industrial AI at scale.

According to Microsoft, the key shift in industrial AI is the ability to securely connect assets, production lines and sites to a shared data platform. Partners play a central role in integrating industrial data into Microsoft Azure and helping organizations move from experimentation to AI solutions that reliably support day‑to‑day operations.

"We’re driving toward an Industrial AI future where every asset, line, and site is connected through a secure and trusted data fabric. Partners like Nortal play an essential role here, unifying industrial data on Microsoft Azure and helping customers move from promising prototypes to AI that reliably runs the plant. Their inclusion in the Industrial AI Partner Guide underscores the strength of their capabilities and the impact we’re delivering together for industrial customers", says Michael MacKenzie, Vice President Digital Operations at Microsoft.

Our long‑standing collaboration with Microsoft has already resulted in measurable outcomes for industrial customers, including improved equipment utilization, higher delivery reliability, and increased production efficiency. At the same time, energy and material consumption have decreased, inventories have been reduced, and waste has declined.

"Nortal has been a trusted partner for industrial clients in the energy and manufacturing sectors from the very beginning. As early pioneers of Industry 4.0, we have invested continuously in digital manufacturing and real-time operational analytics since 2016, when we chose Microsoft Azure as our strategic platform - well before it was widely recognized as a leading platform in the industrial IoT domain. Long before industrial AI became mainstream, we were already deploying large-scale Azure IoT Edge solutions, industrial data platforms and operational analytics in production-critical environments, converging OT and IT domains and turning raw data from shop floor into strategic asset for our clients", says Ergin Tuganay, Head of Data & AI at Nortal Finland.