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Automation Innovation: Where We've Been, Where We're Headed
Automation World, January, 2010
Said Michael Saucier: "The exploding adoption of smart devices is going to be the biggest factor driving automation and manufacturing operations. I think we're at the very beginning of tapping the potential of mobile business intelligence apps. You can put any type of business, operations or manufacturing data on the handheld as long as you consider the form factor when planning for deployment. Mobile business intelligence is the killer app
for PDAs in manufacturing environments."
Read the interview at Automation World 
One on One with Michael Saucier
Dashboard Insight, July 29, 2009
TDashboard Insight recently spoke with Transpara's Michael Saucier about the hurdles in getting BI data on mobile devices, while offering an explanation of "spontaneous collaboration."
Read the interview at Dashboard Insight
Transpara Mobile Dashboard
Dashboard Insight, July 24, 2009
Transpara's Visual KPI presents operating information from multiple data
sources to users in context and on-demand, enabling timely, informed
decision making from any location.
Read more at Dashboard Insight
Transpara Expands to ME, North Africa with Isoratek Partnership
Middle East North Africa Financial Network (MENAF), June 22, 2009
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Subject Matter Expert Enablement via Portable Devices
E&P Magazine Production Blog, June 15, 2009
Use of portable devices for data collection and monitoring in upstream oil
and gas is growing. Michael Saucier, founder and CEO of Transpara, believes
much greater use can be made of portable devices for complex decision
support, assuming the decision makers can access the right data from
wherever they are.
Read more from Kevin Parker, Senior Editor E&P Magazine
Technology Directions - How is Your Vision?
Managing Automation, June 2009
Transpara, for example, offers a lightweight, Web-based tool that includes BI and visualization and can access existing back-end applications, from plant floor historians to finance systems. Transpara's tool can track key
performance indicators (KPIs), such as equipment utilization rates, and it repurposes the data for delivery to mobile devices - for example, a BlackBerry or iPhone. This layered approach makes larger back-end applications more accessible to the everyday user or executive on the road.
Read more on the Managing Automation website
Microsoft Solution Spotlight: Visual KPI
Redmond Magazine, May 2009
"While we had a great track record for reliability and scalability. Windows
2008 Server certification also lowered our mean time to resolve support
incidences, as the manifests and .PDB files we had to create accelerated
debugging and reduced turnaround time on resolving issues." - Michael
Saucier, CEO, Transpara.
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Transpara: Make My KPIs To Go
AMR Research, May 18, 2009
In this research report, AMR Senior Research Analyst Simon Jacobson writes: Transpara's Visual KPI product serves up key performance indicators to either desktop browsers or mobile devices, arming distributed workers that need to be enabled and roped in with the right information, even when not physically on the job.
To purchase report, visit AMR Research
Real-time Intelligence: Instant Access to Factory Data Improves Strategic Planning
Manufacturing Business Technology, May 14, 2009
Ed Yachimiak is a senior SCADA analyst at a large Midwestern utility, which operates 35 sites, each with its own PI Historian from OSIsoft. This platform architecture was augmented by the addition of mobile device dashboard technology from Transpara that enables anyone anywhere to gain visibility to role-defined information 24/7. "Information on plant status and power generation schedules is available on their Blackberries whenever
they request it," Yachimiak says.
Read more on the Manufacturing Business Technology website
The Power of Real-time Intelligence
Control Engineering, May 1, 2009
Ed Yachimiak is the senior SCADA analyst at a large Midwestern utility. With Visual KPI: "Information on plant status and power generation schedules is available on their Blackberries whenever they request it," Yachimiak says. In addition, people have real time pricing information from the market that changes every five minutes, populating Transpara KPI displays. "This greatly augments our plant control systems. It's a critical part of our infrastructure. We couldn't live without it," Yachimiak says.
Read more on the Control Engineering website
BI Solutions in a Harsh Economy
Dashboard Insight, April 6, 2009
Transpara CEO Michael Saucier comments: "Budget cuts are limiting long-range thinking, requiring that new projects provide extremely short-term value. But regardless of the economy, you can't lose sight of driving value over time. BI implementations should be able to deliver immediate value without sacrificing long-term strategy."
Read more on the Dashboard Insighty website
Linked in: Transpara's Operational Intelligence Software Demos in 16
Microsoft Technology Centers
Manufacturing Business Technology, February 3, 2009
"Enterprise mobility is largely an untapped opportunity. With Transpara's Visual KPI, the Microsoft Technology Centers can demonstrate the power of putting business-critical information-from supply chain to purchasing to engineering metrics-on the familiar mobile devices that decision makers use every day." - Chuck McCann, MTC Alliances program director.
Read more on the Manufacturing Business Technology website
Visual KPI Gains AT&T Certification
Manufacturing Business Technology, October 19, 2008
Transpara Corp., a supplier of operations intelligence software, says its solutions hold AT&T Certified Solutions Status, including Visual KPI operations intelligence software that delivers key performance indicators (KPI) and on-demand operations data to any wired or mobile Web browser. Visual KPI enables users to monitor performance and align individual actions with business goals, ensuring timely decision making from any location.
Read more on the Manufacturing Business Technology website
A Company to Watch in 2009: Transpara
Managing Automation, October 2008
Transpara customer Research in Motion implemented Visual KPI following a manufacturing management change that emphasized a focus on KPIs in decision-making processes, says Brad Thurston, project manager for RIM's manufacturing supply chain. "From a project management standpoint, the application is ultra-flexible and easy to deploy. Although we're still somewhat early in our deployment, we're quite optimistic that it will more than pay for itself."
Read more on the Managing Automation website
Wireless Apps Take Wing
Managing Automation, September 2008
"Most applications are designed for the desktop and try to shoehorn [data] onto a small screen. That doesn't work," says Michael Saucier, Transpara's founder and CEO. "We designed our [software] from the ground up to be mobile-friendly, yet the capabilities can extend when attached to the desktop."
Read more on the Managing Automation website
Finally, our salesperson of the show award goes to the indefatigable Mike Saucier
Oil Information Technology Journal (OilIT.com), November 2008
"Finally, our salesperson of the show award goes to the indefatigable
Mike Saucier who manned the coffee machine, monitoring who was
drinking what and displaying a running total on his Blackberry with
Transpara's Visual KPI."
Read more
Data Collection and Optimization "...to Tango"
ControlGlobal, September 2008
National Grid has saved more than $11 million, thanks in part to its role-based data display tools [including Visual KPI], mostly in heat-rate savings, ISO penalty disputes and testing, DCS historical database improvements, and identifying critical points on a fluid drive.
Read more on ControlGlobal.com website
Transpara's Visual KPI Compatible with MOTO Q9h
ControlGlobal.com, September 3, 2008
Transpara's Visual KPI is now compatible with Motorola’s MOTO Q 9h Windows Mobile 6 Standard, a full-function smartphone for individual, business and enterprise users.
Read more on the ControlGlobal website
Asset Optimization: A New Level of Data Transparency
Public Utilities Fortnightly Spark Newsletter, August 2008
At no time has it been more important to understand your asset, its performance, and how to optimize it given the market drivers at play. However, it can be challenging to optimize these assets with the lack of visibility of real-time performance data. By Michael Saucier
Read more on the Public Utilities Fortnightly Spark Newsletter, website
Beach Blanket Control: "PlantBerries" Won't Control Processes Any Time Soon, but They Do Break the Link Between Many Workers & Their Control Rooms
ControlGlobal.com, August 2008
...as wireless technology improves, reporting software becomes more sophisticated and adapted to multiple platforms, and the advantages of remote operation become clearer, disconnecting the operators and engineers from their big-screen control rooms and putting them nearer the action becomes more doable and appealing. The “PlantBerry” or some other handheld mobile devices will, and in some cases already have, become just one more item in the process engineer or operator’s toolbox.
Read more on the ControlGlobal.com website
Going Mobile: Wireless Systems are Improving Front-Line Processes
Public Utilities Fortnightly, July 2008
For employees at National Grid on Long Island, operational data is
just a phone call away with Visual KPI. A key attribute to the
application, from National Grid's perspective, is that it allows the
employee to custom-design access to information according to his or
her role within the company.
Read more on the Public Utilities Fortnightly website
Transpara Partners to Build Out EMEA Channel
Managing Automation, May 27, 2008
The alliance will bring Transpara’s flagship Visual KPI software to markets in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) via Bridge Incubation Group’s localized market strategies and sales channel management.
Read more on the Managing Automaton website
Transpara, OSIsoft partner to deliver time series capabilities in Visual KPI
Control Engineering - April 1, 2008
Transpara Corporation has formed an OEM relationship with OSIsoft, which delivers the PI System data historian. Transpara’s Visual KPI, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser, will be embed the PI System.
Read more on the Control Engineering website
Visual business intelligence: Transpara's KPI solution certified for Windows Server 2008
Manufacturing Business Technology, March 31, 2008
Transpara announced that its Visual KPI Web-based software is the first operations intelligence solution to earn Windows Server 2008 software certification. Windows Server 2008 software certification consists of approximately 100 test cases that independently confirm an application’s compliance with best practices for compatibility, security, reliability and availability on the new platform, while ensuring the software performs in a 64-bit environment.-
Read more on the Manufacturing Business Technology website
Transpara Recognized in START-IT Top 125 Manufacturing Technology Providers for 2008
Start-IT Magazine, March 14, 2008
START-IT magazine announced the companies named on the START-IT 125 for 2008. The START-IT 125 is a directory of the most influential technology providers in the manufacturing space. Companies are selected by the editors of START-IT and its editorial advisory board. March 14, 2008. The 2008 START-IT 125 is a list of the most influential manufacturing technology providers as determined by the editors of START-IT magazine and editorial advisors. It is designed to provide a snapshot of the industrial market and the companies with the greatest impact on its direction.
Read more on the Start-IT Magazine website
Transpara Announces Operations Intelligence for OSIsoft Users
Managing Automation, March 21, 2008
Transpara Corp., a provider of operations intelligence software, recently announced Visual KPI for AF, the first solution to provide Web-based access to and visualization of OSIsoft's PI AF 2.0 — a data server-based modeling tool that defines consistent representation of assets, providing context for data.
Read more on the Managing Automation website
Transpara, OSIsoft announce OEM relationship
Water World, March 2008
Visual KPI embeds the PI system to provide "out of the box" historical analysis and trending capabilities for KPI data.
Read more on the Water World website
Plant Engineering on Visual KPI and PI
System Plant Engineering,March 25, 2008
Embedding OSIsoft PI in our Visual KPI product will bring incredible power to users at any level in a plant hierarchy.
Read more on the Plant Engineering website
Microsoft Channel 9 features Visual KPI
Microsoft Channel 9, February 2008
Transpara worked hard with Microsoft over the last 6 months to revamp the User Experience for Visual KPI. In the pilot episode of a new MSDN series, Microsoft and Transpara redesigned the user experience in “Visual KPI” software to provide a more streamlined interface which is both easier to use as well as being visually appealing. The challenge here was how to work within the Transpara customer requirements of being a web based interface designed to be viewed on a variety of mobile devices.
Read more on the Plant Engineering website
Visual KPI Nominated for Microsoft Award
Microsoft OBA Central, December 2007
The competition for Office Business Application of the Year for 2007 is heating up, and Transpara's Visual KPI is in the running. YOU can help by checking out the web site and providing an insightful comment or review of how your company uses Visual KPI. Click on the link above and help push Visual KPI to a win in 2007! The voting and page-visit tally ends on Jan. 31, 2008 so please visit the link now. You'll need to sign in with an IM account to provide a review or a rating.
Read more on the Microsoft OBA Central website
Michael Saucier featured in Manufacturing Business Technology
Manufacturing Business Technology, December 2007
As 2007 comes to a close, Manufacturing Business Technology turned to some of those it knows best in the vendor community to get an idea of what may lie ahead in the ongoing convergence of manufacturing systems and information technology.
Read more on the Manufacturing Business Technology website
Watching from Afar with Transpara
Automation World, November 2007
As 2007 comes to a close, Manufacturing Business Technology turned to some of those it knows best in the vendor community to get an idea of what may lie ahead in the ongoing convergence of manufacturing systems and information technology.
Read more on the Automation World website
Transpara Named in Emerging 40
Manufacturing Business Technology, October 10, 2007
The Emerging 40 address challenges in all four areas that Manufacturing Business Technology covers: plant operations, enterprise, supply chain, and product engineering. The listing at right categorizes the solution providers in the same way, and brief descriptions of what's involved also are included.
Read more on the Manufacturing Business Technology website
Your Assets at Your Fingertips: Managing Operations and Improving Productivity from Your Cell Phone
Energy Central, October 2007
Theres no question that handhelds - Smartphone, Blackberry, and the rest have become standard battle gear for executives and senior managers. But what about personnel in the field: the plant manager, technician or engineer? Theres no question that handhelds - Smartphone, Blackberry, and the rest have become standard battle gear for executives and senior managers. But what about personnel in the field: the plant manager, technician or engineer?
Read more on the Energy Central website
Data Access from Everywhere
Control Global, April 2, 2007
KeySpan's John Ragone was recently interviewed by Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert. "KeySpan could have created its own software solution, but it opted for Tranparas instead. We know how to produce electric power safely and efficiently. We are not webmasters or programmers. We wanted a vendor that understood our interfaces and could adapt to our changing and evolving needs. Transpara has proved up to the task, observes Ragone
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The Revolution is Already Happening
Automation World, March 8, 2007
Gary Mintchell (Editor in Chief of Automation World magazine) picked up on the progress Transpara is making in our effort to make the world a more decisive place using web service technology. In his words "I'm always a little suspicious of the term "revolution" because I've heard it so much in my life. But I think this is already happening--just not so much in automation. Look at the connected mobile phones. There's lots happening there. In automation, Michael Saucier started a little company called Transpara that take historian data base information and formats it for PDA and cell phone sized devices. Yesterday Invensys Process Systems announced that it will be a reseller."
Read more on the Automation World website
Let Your Data Set You Free: Using KPIs to Manage Remote Assets
Automation World, March 8, 2008
Gary Mintchell (Editor in Chief of Automation World magazine) picked up on the progress Transpara is making in our effort to make the world a more decisive place using web service technology. In his words "I'm always a little suspicious of the term "revolution" because I've heard it so much in my life. But I think this is already happening--just not so much in automation. Look at the connected mobile phones. There's lots happening there. In automation, Michael Saucier started a little company called Transpara that take historian data base information and formats it for PDA and cell phone sized devices. Yesterday Invensys Process Systems announced that it will be a reseller."
Read more on Gary Mintchell's Feed Forward blog
Transpara Announces Visual KPI for 2007 Microsoft Office System, with Support for Excel Server and SharePoint Server
Electric Energy Online, December 2006
Visual KPI's Composite KPI Engine Enables Customers to Leverage Existing Technology Investment for On-Demand, Operations Intelligence on any Handheld or Desktop Browser.
Read more on Electric Energy Online
The push is toward wireless, as mobile, handheld computing devices prove their worth in industrial maintenence applications
Automation World, December 26, 2006
The push is toward wireless, as mobile, handheld computing devices prove their worth in industrial maintenance applications. John Ragone, automation manager, office of electric generation, thinks that KeySpan's new mobility solution from Transpara for use by its maintenance personnel has the potential to produce major savings.
Read more on the Automation World website
Manufacturing ISVs Begin Ascent on Microsoft's Vista
Managing Automation, December 1, 2006
Since Microsoft Corp. just unveiled the much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system, Ms. Neil interviewed top ISV's who are shipping Vista and Office 2007 ready products. "Our partners play a vital role in the early adoption, development, and delivery of Microsoft technologies," said Rob Bernard, general manager of Microsoft's Worldwide ISV Group, in a statement. "By working closely with partners like Transpara, we are helping to provide our mutual customers with a high-quality product, seamless technology integration, and improved user experiences."
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Podcast: Interview with Julie Fraser of Industry Directions
Automation World, November 27 2006
Julie Fraser, principal at market researcher Industry Directions Inc., talks with Automation Worlds Wes Iversen about use of wireless handheld devices in manufacturing applications. During the interview, Fraser discusses the use of KPIs, or key performance indicators, and the benefits of KPI delivery via mobile devices, using tools such as Visual KPI software from Transpara Corp.
Read more on the Automation World website
Transpara: Visual KPI's for smart phones and Office 2007
Microsoft Startup Zone, November 15, 2006
Cliff Reeves' blog at the Microsoft Startup Zone recognized Transpara today. Cliff is a visionary and thought leader with a business pedigree that anyone would envy. Check out Cliff's personal blog on Typepad here.
Read more on the Microsoft Startup Zone website
Energizing the Enterprise
ControlGlobal.com, November 13, 2006
Asset management will put the zip back in your plants! CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the industrys stampede toward asset management systems for productivity improvement.
Read more on the Control Global website
Mobile platforms informative or intrusive?
Control Engineering, November 1, 2006
Asset management will put the zip back in your plants! CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the industrys stampede toward asset management systems for productivity improvement.
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KeySpan Finds The Easy Road In Taking Data To Mobile Workers software
Intelligent Enterprise, October 2, 2006
Getting vital information to mobile workers is no easy task, but the job is a whole lot easier when all the technology fits together. That was behind the decision of KeySpan Corp., the largest electric generator in New York State, to use the latest version of Transpara Corp.'s Visual KPI to distribute performance metrics from generators, turbines and other equipment to engineers via advanced cellular phones. "It's about as simple as you can get," Ragone said. "It took us longer to get the purchasing in place than to launch the actual project." The return on investment was obvious when you consider that taking a turbine offline for repair could cost KeySpan hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, Ragone said. "This is insurance, essentially," he said of Visual KPI.
Read more on the Intelligent Enterprise website
Control Engineering discusses Symbol partnership
Control Engineering, August 30, 2006
Businesses realize greater benefits if they do not have to worry about their technologies working together, says Michelle Crissey, vice president of U.S. and Americas International channels at Symbol. Transpara's Visual KPI delivers critical decision support software to our enterprise mobility customers in the process and manufacturing markets.
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InTech Executive Corner: Wireless applications aren't just for Starbucks warriors anymore
InTech, June 20, 2006
They have evolved in such a way that they are now ideal for supporting real-time business intelligence in the demanding process industries. Read this Executive Corner treatise by Michael Saucier on why now is the time to move ahead with that distributed collaboration project you put on hold last year!
Read more on the InTech website
Podcast with Michael Saucier
Control Global, June 1, 2006
In this week's featured Podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews founder and CEO of Transpara, Michael Saucier, on the company's Visual KPI software application that delivers rich scorecard data and trends to mobile devices.
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OSIsoft San Francisco User Conference
OSIsoft San Francisco User Conference, May 1, 2006
Transpara's booth was busy every hour of the Expo. During the course of the User Conference, Transpara gave personal demos to over 150 OSIsoft customers. Many of these customers put the link to the Visual KPI software on their personal PDAs, SmartPhones and Blackberries.
Read more on the OSIsofte website
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