Automation World – January 2010
“Looking ahead,” says Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara, “I’d say 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.” More…
InSource Solutions to Integrate Visual KPI into Continuous Improvement Initiatives for Mining, Oil and Gas, Utilities and Manufacturing Customers
Transpara Corporation, a leading provider of operational intelligence software, today announced that it has signed a U.S. reseller agreement with InSource Solutions to deliver real-time data visualization solutions to customers in the mining, oil and gas, utilities and manufacturing industries. The only solution purpose-built for delivering data to users on any mobile device or PC without any additional programming, Visual KPI will now be offered as an enhancement to InSource Solutions’ existing continuous improvement and intelligent productivity solutions.
Organizations are no longer satisfied with traditional means of accessing information on their desktops and are demanding new ways to get vital plant information on their mobile devices. Transpara’s expertise in data portability combined with InSource Solutions’ expertise in asset-intensive industries enables key decision makers and domain experts to make more informed, rapid decisions while on the go, without requiring special tools.
“In these times, we all need immediate and pervasive access to critical operational information in order to make smart business decisions,” said Ann Croom, President of InSource Solutions. “With Visual KPI, our customers can leverage existing investments to quickly and easily mobilize their data for access in the same format as if they were sitting at their desk. We are very excited about this partnership and believe that Visual KPI will fill an important need for our customers who are looking to obtain vital operational information, in real-time, on their Smart Phones and other mobile devices.”
Visual KPI aggregates operations, financial and infrastructure information from multiple, existing data sources and delivers actionable key performance indicators (KPIs) to users via the desktop, laptop, and virtually all smartphones and PDAs. The web-based software enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards for an instantaneous snapshot of role-based data and trends.
“The InSource Solutions partnership is vital to our strategy to cover more territory in the U.S.,” said Michael Saucier, founder and CEO, Transpara. “By offering high touch support and end-to-end customer care, InSource provides an additional resource for customers who prefer local support. With Visual KPI as the foundation for mobile data access, customers will be one step closer to sustained operational improvement.”
About InSource Solutions
InSource Solutions partners with manufacturing and industrial businesses to pursue continuous improvement initiatives and achieve intelligent productivity through consulting, professional services, software and hardware solutions. InSource offers insight, expertise, and implementation experience, empowering manufacturing environments with the most flexible, scalable mix of services and solutions to fit their unique requirements. To learn more about InSource Solutions, please visit www.insourcess.com
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara delivers Visual KPI, on-demand dashboard software that provides customers in the process and utility industries with role-based, actionable KPIs on any web browser. Visual KPI presents operating information from multiple data sources to users in context and on-demand, enabling timely, informed decision making from any location. By helping users throughout the organization to monitor their asset base, Visual KPI improves performance, reduces operating costs and lowers business risk. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Transpara is a registered trademark of Transpara Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Download PDF: Transpara and InSource Solutions Sign U.S. Reseller Agreement
I had just returned from giving a speech to high school students at the Discover Engineering Weekend at UCSB and without much thought, I inserted “why I became an engineer” as the theme which incidentally went over quite well. That night I told a good friend of mine about it and he convinced me to blog the story.
So, here is the first of several huge events that led me down this path.
I was always the “fat kid” and the one picked last for any sport. Odie Hallowell was a guy that lived across the street from me and he was ALWAYS the team captain for ANY sport or team game we played as kids. He used to say “if I have to take Saucier, then I get an extra guy.” Over a bunch of years, that kind of thing did weird things to me and steered me away from situations where I might be embarrassed by my complete lack of physical coordination. I never really had any plans for what I was going to be. I never wanted to be an astronaut or a fireman or a doctor. I was pretty sure that I would be “picked last” for those as well. I just stopped thinking about the future.
That all changed when I took Mrs. White’s Chemistry class at Dos Pueblos High School. Because of my late birthday, I was always the youngest kid in my classes, sometimes by a whole year, so on top of being a pudgy klutz, I also missed out on a lot of the banter, inside jokes and inappropriate humor that comes with being a year older. So it was a pretty ironic that my lab partner turned out to be Pam Wilkins – the absolutely hottest girl in school. I am not sure what she thought, but I was in heaven.
One day early in the year, we had some trivial experiment involving mixing some liquids and seeing a color change (yes, it pre-dates the manufacturing intelligence work we do now by just a bit). No one was getting the results in our book and people were getting riled up. Each group was just dumping the materials together and then getting a sludgy material instead of a well-mixed material. 
I saw the problem – the mixing was supposed to take place slowly vs. all at once. It turned out that the process of mixing the materials just as important as what you were mixing! After this revelation, Pam the hottie and I had no trouble getting the correct results and she named me “Professor Sauce” on the spot. Her status as the class supermodel (and a SENIOR no less!) rubbed off on me instantly, and the rest of the Chemistry class started calling me Professor Sauce as well. Before I knew it the immature, pudgy klutz had become popular for something – something I was actually GOOD at. I knew on that exact day that I wanted to figure out how to make stuff, solve chemical problems, and to do it right. I only later found out it was called Chemical Engineering.
This was only the first of several key moments that would lead me to a great education, creating software companies, and much, much more.
Oh, and the same friend I referred to at the beginning is trying to talk me into adding the other key events as a short series and I promised him I would try. Wish me luck and please add a comment if you like what you read (or if you don’t).
Michael
Companies Team up to Market Real-time Data Visualization Solutions to the Oil and Gas and Utilities Industries
Transpara Corporation, a leading provider of operational intelligence software, today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE:SAI], a Fortune 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company, to market real-time data visualization solutions to oil and gas and utility companies.
Transpara’s expertise in real-time data portability combined with SAIC’s deep domain knowledge in the energy sector will help customers increase operational efficiency and improve decision making throughout all levels of the organization. Purpose-built for delivering data to users on any mobile device or PC without any additional programming, Visual KPI optimizes information display for any size handheld screen and enables users to immediately hone in on the areas that need attention.
“Because we understand our customers’ business, processes and IT environments, we can recognize gaps in application portfolios that can be filled by Visual KPI and help ensure a smooth and speedy implementation. Through this alliance, we are initially focused on marketing to the oil and gas and energy industries,” said Charles E. Hurley II, RTDM Applications Manager, SAIC.”
Visual KPI aggregates operations, financial and infrastructure information from multiple, existing data sources and delivers actionable key performance indicators (KPIs) to users via the desktop, laptop, and virtually all smartphones and PDAs. The web-based software enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards for an instantaneous snapshot of role-based data and trends.
“SAIC’s global delivery channel, strong presence in oil and gas, and relationships with major energy producers make them an ideal teammate for Transpara at this stage of our growth,” said Michael Saucier, founder and CEO, Transpara. “SAIC’s domain expertise will be used to create Visual KPI templates and guidelines to help customers derive maximum value from the solution. We look forward to working with SAIC to address the ongoing challenge of real-time data portability.”
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara delivers Visual KPI, on-demand dashboard software that provides customers in the process and utility industries with role-based, actionable KPIs on any web browser. Visual KPI presents operating information from multiple data sources to users in context and on-demand, enabling timely, informed decision making from any location. By helping users throughout the organization to monitor their asset base, Visual KPI improves performance, reduces operating costs and lowers business risk. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Transpara is a registered trademark of Transpara Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Download PDF: Transpara and SAIC Sign Reseller Agreement
Wise Analytics – September 1, 2009
“Transpara is a best of breed operational dashboard solution that focuses on real-time mobile delivery. Manufacturers and utilities embody a large portion of Transpara’s customer base due to their ability to offer dashboards and KPIs on handheld devices, mobile devices or through a company portal.” Read report…
Browser-based Visual KPI Delivers Operations, Financial and Infrastructure Data Directly to Business Users’ Mobile Phones
Transpara Corporation, a leading provider of operational intelligence software, today announced that its Visual KPI solution has been optimized for the Palm® Pre™ phone. The only solution purpose-built for delivering data and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to business users on any mobile device or PC without any additional programming, Visual KPI now provides Palm Pre users with on-demand operations, financial and infrastructure data via the new phone’s Palm webOS™ based browser.
Transpara Visual KPI uses web technology to make key data available on any wireless device, generating graphics, scorecards and trends optimized for the specific device. Visual KPI ensures decision makers stay in direct and immediate contact with on-demand, role-based information required for them to take action.
“By extending support to the Palm Pre, Transpara has added the new front-runner in usability to our stable of existing device support,” said Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara. “Companies today are squarely focused on getting employees to work smarter and make better decisions by staying connected to critical business data. With support for more than 400 device types, Visual KPI data visualization dashboards provide users with an instantaneous snapshot of their most important role-based data, scorecards and trends.”
The Palm Pre phone on the Palm webOS mobile platform lets users tackle their entire day like never before. Palm webOS, invented exclusively for mobile use, is the first mobile platform to bring information from the many places it resides – on the users’ phone, at work or on the web – into one simple, integrated view. Tailored to fit the Palm Pre device requirements and screen size, Visual KPI delivers business-critical data in context, enabling timely decision making from any location.
Visual KPI enables businesses – including those in the manufacturing, utilities, oil and gas and pharmaceuticals industries – to extend the value of their existing investments for improved operations and business performance. Visual KPI’s lightweight analytics turn the massive amounts of data generated from disparate sources – such as OSIsoft PI System, Rockwell FactoryTalk Historian, Invensys InSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Excel Spreadsheets, SmartSignal, OLE DB and Web Services – into meaningful, actionable information.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara delivers Visual KPI, on-demand dashboard software that provides customers in the process and utility industries with role-based, actionable KPIs on any web browser. Visual KPI presents operating information from multiple data sources to users in context and on-demand, enabling timely, informed decision making from any location. By helping users throughout the organization to monitor their asset base, Visual KPI improves performance, reduces operating costs and lowers business risk. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Transpara is a registered trademark of Transpara Corporation. Palm and Pre are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Download PDF: Transpara Visual KPI Optimized for Palm Pre
Dashboard Insight – July 29, 2009
Investing in mobile BI like Visual KPI is a tiny fraction of additional investment on top of a company’s existing investment in data sources. Plus, the payback multiplies the number of ways you can use your previous investments, delivering more intelligent, timely, and in-context use of existing investments and data sources. More…
Dashboard Insight – July 24, 2009
Since subject matter experts and decision makers are rarely at their desks, having immediate access to real-time metrics increases the value and effectiveness of existing data by allowing users to solve problems “on the go.” More…
Visual KPI Data Visualization Dashboards Extend Value of Energy and Manufacturing Companies’ Operations and IT Investments
Transpara Corporation, a leading provider of operational intelligence software, today announced a strategic distribution agreement with ISORATEK. The only solution purpose-built for delivering data to users on any mobile device or PC without any additional programming, Visual KPI will now be marketed and distributed across 15 countries in the MENA (Middle East, North Africa) region. The partnership includes the development of localized market strategies, recruitment, alignment and management of the local partner channel supported by an effective go to market strategy.
“We focus on representing cost-effective solutions that leverage the end customer investment in technology while providing a quick ROI, and Transpara’s Visual KPI plays perfectly into that strategy,” said Moubine Nsouli, founder and managing director, ISORATEK. “Whether on the plant floor or in the boardroom, Visual KPI helps decision makers access the right information at the right time. We expect Visual KPI to deliver significant value to customers and immediate revenue to ISORATEK’s channel network.”
Visual KPI aggregates operations, financial and infrastructure information from multiple, existing data sources and delivers actionable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to users via the desktop, laptop, and virtually all smartphones and PDAs. The web-based software enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards for an instantaneous snapshot of role-based data and trends.
“With Visual KPI, companies around the globe are extending the value of their existing operations and IT systems to present decision makers with comprehensive, rich analysis of business-critical data at their fingertips,” said Michael Saucier, founder and CEO, Transpara. ISORATEK’s deep experience in the MENA region, together with their vertical insight into the energy and manufacturing sectors, makes them an ideal partner to expand the reach of Visual KPI to the MENA region. Together with ISORATEK, Transpara is delivering a solution that is easy to deploy and that adds quick value without requiring a heavy financial investment.”
About ISORATEK
ISORATEK is a regional distributor of IT solutions, focused on infrastructure, network management, data management and security on multiple vendor platforms. Isoratek’s deep knowledge of the IT sector in the MENA region (Middle East, North Africa), together with its extensive partner channel, enables enhanced partner growth to new territories. ISORATEK delivers world-class products that optimize business processes and improve operational efficiency for customers. Visit http://www.isoratek.com/ for more information.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara delivers Visual KPI, operations intelligence software that provides customers in the process and utility industries with role-based, actionable KPIs on any web browser. Visual KPI presents operating information from multiple data sources to users in context and on-demand, enabling timely, informed decision making from any location. By helping users throughout the organization to monitor their asset base, Visual KPI improves performance, reduces operating costs and lowers business risk. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Transpara is a registered trademark of Transpara Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Download PDF: Transpara Expands to Middle East, North Africa with Isoratek Partnership
Hart’s E&P – 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. More…