..by holding User Group meetings
in San Francisco and Frankfurt. One of the things I found interesting is how international this user group is…there’s a big table on the way into the General Session room that has translation headsets in about ten different languages.
The morning session yesterday included talks by Pat Kennedy, OSIsoft’s CEO and founder, who started a small company called Oil Systems Incorporated twenty-five years ago. The title of his talk, which is pretty much the theme of this conference was “Real-time Goes Mainstream”…and so it has.
An “enterprise approach” was the buzzword of choice, too. It’s all about the data, as far as OSIsoft is concerned, and the transparency of, and visibility of, the data.
We’ve heard for twenty five years that a real-time enterprise is coming. The tools are here. PI isn’t the only toolset, just the biggest. What is lacking is the “enterprise will” to move from cost accounting to real-time performance management. I’ll bet you that companies who can “muster that will” are the companies that we’ll still be talking about twenty-five years from now.
Much talking was done about the OSIsoft product roadmap. For years OSI has had neat products with cute names…and they have confused the hell out of their customers. Now they are going to build a foundation to put all those cute products into.
And it sounds like they’ve figured out how to do this right– working with Microsoft to make it easy to work with OSIsoft RtPM products directly in Office 2007 when it is released in a few months.
Then we had actual real live end users give talks. Mike Reddy, CIO of Chevron International Exploration and Production Company, and Bill Sigmon of AEP. Both companies have mustered the will to move into the 21st century.
There is also a partner expo…with some very interesting products to show.
One of them really fascinated me. Michael Saucier, formerly of OSIsoft, is now at a small startup called Transpara.
Michael grabbed me as I was walking by, and asked me to try something on my Blackberry. He pointed me to a part of the Transpara website where I could see OSIsoft KPIs on my Blackberry.
makes a product called VisualKPI, you see, which is designed for mobile communications.
It is just easier to show you how it works. Everybody take out your Blackberry, or internet-enabled cellphone, and enter this URL: http://demo.transpara.com/VisualKPI
Or, if you want to read along, go to Transpara’s Try It Now!
One of the biggest problems that instrumentation supervisors tell us they have is getting the right person to the right place quickly enough to prevent problems from getting really bad or spreading. Here’s another tool.
In the afternoon, Daniel Wasser from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Michael Purcell, from the biggest OSIsoft integrator partner, Omicron, described their project to enable Process Analyzer Technology (PAT) on the Emerson DeltaV system that runs the New Brunswick, New Jersey pilot facility for BMS. Emile Richard, from the Portland Water District talked about using PI in a water utility, and most interesting, Dr. Jun Sha, of FibrLINK talked about creating a Real-Time Data Driven Enterprise Platform to increase uptime for North China’s power industry.
Other talks included a discussion on using OSIsoft to improve cybersecurity, and using OSIsoft at an Onshore Operations Center for ConocoPhillips Norway.
The morning session yesterday included talks by Pat Kennedy, OSIsoft’s CEO and founder, who started a small company called Oil Systems Incorporated twenty-five years ago. The title of his talk, which is pretty much the theme of this conference was “Real-time Goes Mainstream”…and so it has.
An “enterprise approach” was the buzzword of choice, too. It’s all about the data, as far as OSIsoft is concerned, and the transparency of, and visibility of, the data.
We’ve heard for twenty five years that a real-time enterprise is coming. The tools are here. PI isn’t the only toolset, just the biggest. What is lacking is the “enterprise will” to move from cost accounting to real-time performance management. I’ll bet you that companies who can “muster that will” are the companies that we’ll still be talking about twenty-five years from now.
Much talking was done about the OSIsoft product roadmap. For years OSI has had neat products with cute names…and they have confused the hell out of their customers. Now they are going to build a foundation to put all those cute products into.
And it sounds like they’ve figured out how to do this right– working with Microsoft to make it easy to work with OSIsoft RtPM products directly in Office 2007 when it is released in a few months.
Then we had actual real live end users give talks. Mike Reddy, CIO of Chevron International Exploration and Production Company, and Bill Sigmon of AEP. Both companies have mustered the will to move into the 21st century.
There is also a partner expo…with some very interesting products to show.
One of them really fascinated me. Michael Saucier, formerly of OSIsoft, is now at a small startup called Transpara.
Michael grabbed me as I was walking by, and asked me to try something on my Blackberry. He pointed me to a part of the Transpara website where I could see OSIsoft KPIs on my Blackberry.
It is just easier to show you how it works. Everybody take out your Blackberry, or internet-enabled cellphone, and enter this URL: http://demo.transpara.com/VisualKPI
Or, if you want to read along, go to Transpara’s Try It Now!
One of the biggest problems that instrumentation supervisors tell us they have is getting the right person to the right place quickly enough to prevent problems from getting really bad or spreading. Here’s another tool.
In the afternoon, Daniel Wasser from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Michael Purcell, from the biggest OSIsoft integrator partner, Omicron, described their project to enable Process Analyzer Technology (PAT) on the Emerson DeltaV system that runs the New Brunswick, New Jersey pilot facility for BMS. Emile Richard, from the Portland Water District talked about using PI in a water utility, and most interesting, Dr. Jun Sha, of FibrLINK talked about creating a Real-Time Data Driven Enterprise Platform to increase uptime for North China’s power industry.
Other talks included a discussion on using OSIsoft to improve cybersecurity, and using OSIsoft at an Onshore Operations Center for ConocoPhillips Norway.