In my last blog on Data Contextualization, we talked about data contextualization at various levels in the OT Ecosystem architecture, particularly in the Operational Data Lake. LNS Research is increasingly hearing the term “Data Hub” used to describe the processing, conditioning, contextualization, persistence, and access functionality so key to data management and one’s ability to scale the New OT Ecosystem. Questions we frequently hear are:
Read MoreRub-A-Dub-Dub...It's All About the Data Hub
Posted by Joe Perino on January 18, 2022
Categories: Cloud, Big Data, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML), IT/OT, Operational Architecture, Edge, Autonomous Operations, IX Platform, Data Analytics
Reliance NXG Announced at ETQ Quality Vision 2021: "Cloud Native" Approach May Allow Customers to Leapfrog Competition
Posted by Tom Comstock on May 11, 2021
LNS Research had the opportunity to participate in ETQ’s virtual event, Quality Vision 2021. The virtual mainstage was dominated by discussion of the company’s concurrent new product release, Reliance NXG, a cloud-native version of Reliance that is reportedly fully functional.
Read MoreCategories: Cloud, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Quality 4.0, LifeSciences, qualitymanagement
AVEVA Completes Acquisition of OSIsoft...and so?
Posted by Joe Perino on April 09, 2021
AVEVA just announced that they had completed the acquisition of OSIsoft. The announcement was made in an analyst conference on Friday, March 19, 2021, with a one-hour webinar featuring AVEVA CEO Craig Hayman and OSIsoft’s Pat Kennedy, plus Rob McGreevy of AVEVA and Gregg Le Blanc of OSIsoft. AVEVA worked on the acquisition for over a year, and OSIsoft also had help from their investors and former SAP pitchman and entrepreneur, Shai Agassi. Interestingly enough, Michael Siemer, OSIsoft’s president, was not on the call.
Read MoreCategories: Cloud, Solution Vendor / Software Vendor, AVEVA
SAP TechEd Virutal Conference - All About the Cloud
Posted by Andrew Hughes on February 04, 2021
How to do a virtual conference right? Ask SAP! TechEd 2020 ran for 48 hours with barely a moment’s pause and attracted over 60 thousand non-SAP registrants. Ten parallel technical tracks allowed everyone to find the level of detail and expertise to suit them and gave access to board level executives, particularly CTO, Juergen Mueller, who gave both day’s keynotes and sat on at least one executive Q&A panel. The stage management and organization of the event is to be heartily applauded. The target audience of technical experts and development leaders of 440,000 SAP customers is somewhat beyond the scope of LNS Research, but there were many interesting announcements about improvement to the development environment and move to the cloud.
Read MoreCategories: Cloud, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
Rockwell Automation Fair at Home
Posted by Tom Comstock on January 19, 2021
LNS Research recently had the opportunity to listen in on Rockwell Automation’s first virtual Automation Fair. Rockwell Automation strove valiantly to replicate the massive Automation Fair virtually: they continued to have Perspective Keynotes, detailed product and technical sessions, hands-on training, a partner exhibit, and even a virtual tour of the Product and Technology showcase. Rockwell Automation is known for its partner and channel-based strategy and this event reconfirmed, yet again, how strong Rockwell Automation’s orientation to partners and channels really is.
Read MoreCategories: Cloud, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing, Edge
AVEVA Acquires OSIsoft in $5 Billion Deal
Posted by Joe Perino on August 26, 2020
AVEVA, the industrial software company, announced on August 25, 2020, its intention to acquire OSIsoft from Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy and OSIsoft investors, including SoftBank, for $5 billion. The acquisition is expected to close in late 2020 or early 2021. AVEVA is to finance the deal through $4.4 billion of cash plus $600 million of stock, making Dr. Kennedy AVEVA’s largest private shareholder with 4.4% of the company. Dr. Kennedy will remain connected to AVEVA through a Chairman Emeritus role. AVEVA will raise the capital through $3.5 billion of rights issues plus $900 million of cash on their balance sheet. The deal represents a multiple of roughly 10X OSIsoft’s 1H-2020 annualized revenues, a multiplier similar to AspenTech’s, one of AVEVA’s major competitors.
Read MoreCategories: Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Software, AVEVA, Acquisition, OSIsoft
Sparta Systems Shares Strategy at Connection 2020
Posted by Tom Comstock on July 07, 2020
The COVID Pandemic has forced software vendors to recreate their customer events virtually. Sparta Systems went the route of simplification this year with its Connection Virtual Series 2020: offering only six keynote presentation s over the course of two weeks. Sparta shared important updates despite the more abbreviated format.
Read MoreCategories: Cloud, Quality 4.0, Connected Worker, COVID-19, LifeSciences, #SpartaSystems
Virtual 2020 PowerPlex
Posted by Tom Comstock on June 16, 2020
LNS recently participated in Plex Systems’ annual customer event, PowerPlex 2020, which was held virtually for the first time. Three themes emerged from the event.
Read MoreCategories: Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), Cloud, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, COVID-19, saas
The New Prize - The OT Ecosystem
Posted by Joe Perino on June 10, 2020
In previous blogs and articles, I have written about the new “OT Ecosystem.” Over the past few months I had a chance to observe what’s happening in the market with a number of automation and software vendors, so I thought this would be a good time to revisit the OT Ecosystem, delve deeper into what it is and what it means, and why it is important.
Read MoreCategories: Operational Excellence, Cloud, IT/OT, Connected Worker
iBASEt: A Virtual Update Instead of Excelerate 2020 (For Now)
Posted by Tom Comstock on June 03, 2020
It should be “event season” except, as my daughter says, “everything is cancelled.” Vendors have three choices in this era of Social Distancing: cancel their event, postpone their event, or go virtual. iBASEt has gone the “postpone” route with a goal of having their customer conference Excelerate 2020 in the fall. In the meantime, they briefed LNS Research on their progress.
Read MoreCategories: Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), Cloud