GE (GE) Announces Plans to Open New Global Software Center and Hire 400 Additional Employees
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GE (NYSE: GE) announced today plans to open a new Global Software Center to be headquartered at the Bishop Ranch office complex here. When fully operational, this new “nerve center” for software will employ approximately 400 software professionals to speed the pace of innovation, collaboration and commercialization of new technologies. This expansion adds to GE’s current software portfolio that includes technologies that help customers improve productivity and increase cost savings, whether they operate power plants, jet engines, electric vehicle charging stations, locomotives or the medical systems deployed around the world.
GE is driving software-based solutions and services to help hospitals better manage patient flow and run more efficiently.
GE Vice President Bill Ruh, an executive with more than 25 years of software industry experience, will lead the centralized software initiative. Ruh and his team will connect and align the more than 5,000 GE software professionals who use information to develop digital offerings that solve GE customers’ most pressing challenges.
“For years, GE has used software in its equipment to provide power, to move people and to help physicians see and treat disease,” explained Ruh. “Our goal today is to develop a new generation of intelligent systems that can predict and respond to changes. These digital offerings will harness and automatically analyze the petabytes of data that are generated by industrial equipment to help our customers get the most value from their assets. All of this activity will occur on the ‘Industrial Internet,’ a living network of intelligent machines and systems.”
With its decades of experience designing, manufacturing and servicing these complex systems, and relentless focus on innovation, GE is uniquely positioned to build and deliver the world’s industrial infrastructure and the software that runs it. By building software for the Industrial Internet, GE is putting “big data” to work for customers, allowing them to take advantage of opportunities or solve problems in real-time.
Mark Little, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at GE, said, “For decades, GE has seamlessly migrated technology from one industry to another. As we look at new opportunities in software, our new center will stimulate even more collaboration across GE and our diverse customer base. On any given day, one of our software experts could be working on a clean energy project, while at the same time contributing to a program that improves the delivery of health care.”
GE is driving software-based solutions and services to help hospitals better manage patient flow and run more efficiently.
GE Vice President Bill Ruh, an executive with more than 25 years of software industry experience, will lead the centralized software initiative. Ruh and his team will connect and align the more than 5,000 GE software professionals who use information to develop digital offerings that solve GE customers’ most pressing challenges.
“For years, GE has used software in its equipment to provide power, to move people and to help physicians see and treat disease,” explained Ruh. “Our goal today is to develop a new generation of intelligent systems that can predict and respond to changes. These digital offerings will harness and automatically analyze the petabytes of data that are generated by industrial equipment to help our customers get the most value from their assets. All of this activity will occur on the ‘Industrial Internet,’ a living network of intelligent machines and systems.”
With its decades of experience designing, manufacturing and servicing these complex systems, and relentless focus on innovation, GE is uniquely positioned to build and deliver the world’s industrial infrastructure and the software that runs it. By building software for the Industrial Internet, GE is putting “big data” to work for customers, allowing them to take advantage of opportunities or solve problems in real-time.
Mark Little, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at GE, said, “For decades, GE has seamlessly migrated technology from one industry to another. As we look at new opportunities in software, our new center will stimulate even more collaboration across GE and our diverse customer base. On any given day, one of our software experts could be working on a clean energy project, while at the same time contributing to a program that improves the delivery of health care.”
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