Reading time ( words) SAP and Siemens Digital Industries Software announced an expansion of their partnership that will enable both companies to deliver new solutions for the Service and Asset Lifecycle. With an initial focus on discrete manufacturing, Siemens will begin to offer SAP® Asset Intelligence Network, the SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management application, and the SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management package. SAP will offer Siemens' Teamcenter® software service lifecycle management (SLM) portfolio to enable an ecosystem with integrated service engineering and asset operations. The companies plan to deliver new cloud-based services that can help industrial equipment manufacturers to increase critical asset operational efficiency, avoid unplanned downtime and shorten design cycles in asset engineering projects.