The industry's digitalization and sustainability goals can be achieved primarily through the use of open and modular solution platforms. Bosch Rexroth therefore opened up the operating system ctrlX OS to the entire automation market at the end of 2022 and is now attracting more and more partner companies. A new partner is congatec, a fast-growing technology company focussing on embedded and edge computing products based on Computer-on-Modules. By using ctrlX OS and the associated ecosystem, users gain access to the entire solution portfolio and numerous apps. This means that they can use both ctrlX OS apps and the apps from the partner network ctrlX World. Ready-made building blocks at the hardware and software level simplify the development of even complex embedded applications including edge and cloud integration. This reduces the time to market and at the same time offers a high level of design reliability. One of congatec's goals is to provide fully integrated and application-ready solutions for applications. These range from connecting sensors and actuators in the field to the cloud. The collaboration will make congatec's modular, scalable range of solutions for networked and cloud-integrated applications even more attractive.