
Research & Technology · GE Digital formed 2015 · later portfolio changes
GE Digital & Software
Industrial software for a connected world.
Vintage-style artistic recreation of GE's historic businesses.
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Business history
GE Digital was formed in 2015 to bring together GE's software and industrial internet work.
Energy-focused software activities moved into GE Vernova. Proficy manufacturing software was sold to TPG on March 2, 2026, while GE Vernova retained energy-focused software including GridOS. Aviation digital activities have a separate lineage.
Historical references
Subsidiaries, acquisitions & joint ventures
Acquired · 2017 – 2019 (controlling ownership)
ServiceMax
GE completed its acquisition of the field-service software company on January 10, 2017, following the 2016 announcement.
Ownership outcome: The majority-stake sale to Silver Lake completed in February 2019, following the 2018 agreement; GE retained 10% at that transaction.
Source
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Major products & innovations
- ✦ Industrial software
- ✦ Asset performance management
- ✦ Grid software
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Heritage illustration

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Employee memories
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GE Jokes
The sixth why
We asked the five whys. We found the root cause. Then the manager asked a sixth why.
We're still in that conference room.
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GE Garfield
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GE Motivational Quotes
No turbine was ever built by one person. Every one of those hands mattered.
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GE Legend Collectable Cards
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GE Honorable Mentions
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Related businesses
1900 laboratory roots · successor research centersResearch & Technology
GE Research
One of America's earliest dedicated corporate research laboratories, founded in 1900.
Heritage continues in successor-aligned research organizations.
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GE Vernova
Power, wind and electrification under one name.
Independent since April 2, 2024; not a GE Aerospace division.


