Siemens and AWS join to democratise generative AI in software development

Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock into its Mendix low-code development platform, facilitating the creation and upgrade of applications with advanced generative AI technology. This move aims to accelerate digitalisation and address skilled labour shortages.

Mendix, a leader in low-code development with 50 million end-users and over 200,000 applications running on AWS across various sectors, is set to benefit from this integration. Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are enhancing their partnership, simplifying the development and scaling of generative AI applications for businesses in diverse industries. The integration of Amazon Bedrock – a service providing access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API – with Mendix will empower domain experts in fields such as engineering, manufacturing, logistics, insurance, and banking to create and upgrade applications using the latest generative AI technology.

Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens, stated, “By integrating Amazon Bedrock into our low-code platform, we are making generative AI technology accessible to all, enabling the creation of applications that enhance competitiveness, resilience, and sustainability.”

Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS, commented, “This partnership leverages our decade-long relationship with Siemens, offering customers a flexible, customisable, and secure environment to explore new opportunities with generative AI.”

The integration allows customers to select the most suitable generative AI model for their use case and incorporate it into their applications quickly and securely. This streamlines development, making it simpler and more efficient. The Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration enables teams to create industry-hardened applications without dedicated programming knowledge, using a graphical interface and drag-and-drop commands.

This innovation in Mendix enables customers to apply generative AI to enhance workforce productivity. For instance, factory workers can quickly access machine documentation and visualisations, and production engineers can receive suggestions for machine adjustments to boost factory productivity. Customers can leverage their data securely and maintain full control without building their own AI infrastructure.

Generative AI technology can enrich applications with features such as summarising technical documents, translating content, or recognising images. Financial businesses can integrate fraud detection, and car factory workers can improve quality based on AI analysis of manufacturing data. With a choice of foundational models on Amazon Bedrock, users can select and integrate the best model for their tasks effortlessly.

This collaboration builds on AWS and Siemens’s longstanding partnership, streamlining IT and cloud technology use in applications and machine workflows. Today, more than 50 million end users globally work with over 200,000 applications built with Mendix’s low-code platform, part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Low-code platforms are expected to grow substantially, allowing developers to build software faster with smaller teams.

Amazon Bedrock offers easy access to industry-leading large language models and other foundation models, simplifying generative AI application development while supporting privacy and security. Users can apply Guardrails for content filtering, adhere to responsible AI policies, or finetune models using Knowledge Bases. The Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration complements AWS’s other generative AI services, like Amazon CodeWhisperer, to extend generative AI benefits to developers and enterprise users, regardless of their programming skills.

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