OSIsoft partners with Incuity, Transpara for data integration, IT infrastructure monitoring
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 8/7/2007 9:31:00 AM
Incuity Software, which offers real-time business intelligence (BI) software for manufacturing enterprises, reports a partner agreement with OSIsoft as an independent software vendor (ISV).
“We are pleased to launch this partnership because there is so much to be gained by using the [OSIsoft] PI System and Incuity EMI [Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence] in concert," says Doug Lawson, Incuity CEO. "The PI System is one of the most popular manufacturing data sources to which Incuity EMI is typically connected. This partnership gives us access to the technical resources of OSIsoft so we can work together to provide the best possible application experience for PI System users. It also will benefit our value-added resellers, since so many of them have long familiarity with PI System."
Incuity EMI integrates PI System historical data with enterprise business data to present complete and context-rich information that provides deeper manufacturing insight, Lawson explains. "Incuity enables PI System users to effectively leverage existing information assets and avoid a 'rip and replace' approach to business intelligence applications for manufacturing. Incuity also can serve as a platform for building composite manufacturing applications alongside PI System to optimize production performance, reduce cost, and ensure compliance."
Says Tom Gilson, an OSIsoft ISV manager, "The synergy of our two product families can truly help break down the barriers between real-time operational information and transactional business data to support better decision-making throughout manufacturing enterprises."
In other news, Transpara’s Visual KPI MCN Quick start plug-in for OSIsoft’s Manufacturing Control Network (MCN) Health Monitor enables process manufacturing customers to detect IT performance issues from any handheld or desktop Web browser. Visual KPI delivers business-critical operating data to any mobile device, cell phone, PDA, or SmartPhone, enabling timely incident resolution, increased uptime, and process efficiency with on-demand access to IT performance data stored in an OSIsoft PI Server.
“Continuous monitoring of IT systems and advanced notification of potential infrastructure anomalies are critical to the success of a process manufacturing organization,” says Martin Otterson, a director for OSIsoft. “By offering handheld, mobile, and browser-based access to MCN Health Monitor, Visual KPI extends the already-significant value derived from MCN alone, providing customers with timely access to powerful decision support data.”
MCN Health Monitor extends the OSIsoft PI System enterprise data historian capabilities to IT asset monitoring, offering an additional layer of functionality that detects potential issues to performance, network problems and network bottlenecks within the manufacturing IT infrastructure. A set of templates for KPIs, Scorecards, and Views allows r fast deployment of Visual KPI with existing MCN Health Monitor customers, and delivers ROI that can be measured in days.
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