Baker Hughes And Antea: A Strategic Step Forward In Asset Integrity Management

Baker Hughes has taken a bold step to strengthen its position in the asset integrity software market. By integrating Antea’s mechanical integrity technology into its Cordant Asset Performance Management (APM) platform, Baker Hughes shifts from being a traditional APM vendor to becoming a more integrated provider of asset performance and integrity management solutions.

Industrial firms, particularly those managing highly complex assets in remote locations or harsh environments, are increasingly prioritizing fixed equipment integrity, streamlined inspection workflows and risk-based methodologies to enhance reliability, safety and operational efficiency. In fact, the upcoming Verdantix 2026 industrial transformation survey shows that over half of industrial leaders rank safer operations and asset integrity as high priorities, with roughly two-thirds planning to increase spend in these areas.

Baker Hughes emerged as a market leader for APM software in the 2024 Verdantix Green Quadrant due to its strong condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and maintenance strategy optimization capabilities – but the asset integrity domain was highlighted as a key area of growth. This is where Antea excels.

Antea brings market-leading capabilities across three foundational pillars of asset integrity: asset information management, integrity operating windows, and asset criticality and risk analysis. The firm differentiates itself by offering advanced 3D digital twins for condition monitoring locations (CML) visualizations and inspection planning. Through this partnership, Baker Hughes:

• Accelerates its maturity in mobile-enabled inspection management and integrity analytics.
• Enhances asset data contextualization using Antea’s native 3D visualization tools.
• Strengthens risk-based decision-making by embedding API 581-compliant quantitative models into inspection workflows.
• Embeds integrity expertise with Antea’s 200+ asset models and 30+ damage mechanisms.
• Delivers connected workflows that link inspection planning, asset health monitoring and compliance for improved decision-making.

This integration is not just additive; it’s transformative. It enables Baker Hughes to offer a more complete asset integrity and APM solution, competing with specialist vendors like Cenosco and industry leaders such as GE Vernova. At the same time, it addresses the evolving needs of industrial firms seeking to reduce costs, improve safety, and optimize inspection schedules and audit readiness.

This partnership signals Baker Hughes’s intent to climb the ranks in the asset integrity software market and reflects a growing trend we’re seeing across industrial software markets: AIM-focused partnerships. One recent example is Irth Solutions establishing partnerships with consulting firms Jee and Integrity Solutions to advance pipeline integrity across EMEA and North America, respectively. Similarly, Cenosco forged a strategic alliance with MaxGrip to combine asset integrity software with APM consulting expertise. Will other oil and gas technology providers vendors follow suit and seek specialist partnerships to stay competitive?

To understand how other vendors are positioning themselves, and where capability gaps remain, explore the full benchmark in Verdantix Smart Innovators: Asset Integrity And Risk Management Software.