New Capabilities Pair IT Data with Operational Data to Capitalize on
the Internet of Things
OSIsoft, a global leader enabling operational intelligence, today
announced the signing of a global reseller agreement with SAP
(NYSE: SAP). As part of the agreement, SAP will resell the OSIsoft
solution as the SAP HANA® IoT Connector by OSIsoft. The new connector
helps companies combine data from their control and automation systems
and their smart devices, with transactional and business data. Then SAP
HANA enables them to rapidly perform retrospective and predictive
analysis and deliver actionable insights across their organizations. The
solution is available now.
Industry-leading process, manufacturing and utility companies use
OSIsoft’s PI System to capture operational data in real time and provide
real-time operational insights. Over 1.5 billion sensor-based data
streams gathered from 17,000 sites across 125 countries are managed by
the PI System. Industrial enterprises can now combine and leverage
business and operational data within the SAP HANA platform to help
improve process efficiencies, asset health, energy utilization, safety
and quality.
Essential to delivering operational excellence is utilizing past and
present sensor-based data to gain insights for operational improvements
and predict future events before they happen. Operational sensor-based
data can be challenging to access and leverage in big data initiatives.
Large volumes, lack of context, inconsistency and gaps in time-series
data can mean lengthy processing of data. Now, the new integration
enables sensor-based data collected by the PI System to be more easily
filtered, cleansed, shaped and integrated in near real time for advanced
analytics and decision making using SAP HANA as an industry-leading
system, tool and database that organizations already own today.
“The new integrator is a game changer for data-driven enterprises
looking to leverage operations and business data to deliver
transformative improvements,” said Pat Kennedy, CEO of OSIsoft. “Early
beta customers have seen workflows reduced from months to minutes with
the new integrator. The new tool dissolves barriers to IT and OT working
together, and empowers anyone from the engineer to the business
executive to access enterprise data for impactful insights.”
“Real-time asset performance information enables more predictable and
profitable operations, with a significant impact to our bottom line,”
said Matthias Beier, vice president of Information Technology at EDF
Renewable Energy. “However, analyzing large datasets can be challenging,
especially time-series data. The amount of time required to process and
exchange information between systems can be considerably longer than the
actual analysis. Now with the SAP HANA IoT Connector by OSIsoft, the
data processing and exchange can take minutes, lowering the barrier for
organizations to explore and ask more questions of the data they own
already. We are now able to analyze and visualize operations in an
integrated manner that was not possible before.”
“Today’s fast-moving business world can no longer afford the separation
of operations and business data. There is too much value lost in
translation and in delays accessing and analyzing that data,” said Peter
Maier, general manager of Energy and Natural Resources Industries at
SAP. “SAP and OSIsoft have partnered to overcome this separation with
our customers using the SAP HANA platform to analyze data in real time,
draw actionable conclusions, and translate business decisions into
system controls.”
To learn more, please visit http://www.osisoft.com/corporate/sap-hana/
or http://www.sap.com/pc/tech/internet-of-things/software/hana-iot-connector/index.html
About OSIsoft, LLC
OSIsoft, a global leader enabling operational intelligence, delivers an
open enterprise infrastructure to connect sensor-based data, operations
and people to enable real-time and actionable insights. As the maker of
the PI System, OSIsoft empowers companies across a range of industries
in activities such as exploration, extraction, production, generation,
process and discrete manufacturing, distribution and services to
leverage streaming data to optimize and enrich their businesses. For
over thirty years, OSIsoft customers have embraced the PI System to
deliver process, quality, energy, regulatory compliance, safety,
security and asset health improvements across their operations. Founded
in 1980, OSIsoft is a privately held company, headquartered in San
Leandro, California, USA with offices around the world. For more
information, visit www.osisoft.com.
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