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Implementation of Transpara’s Visual KPI Earns International Utility Accolades for Technology Innovation
Transpara Corporation today announced that National Grid (formerly Keyspan Energy) has been awarded the Aberdeen Innovation in Technology award. The recognition was awarded as a result of the utility’s ability to leverage technology solutions – Transpara’s Visual KPI software – to solve pressing business issues to positively impact company performance. Visual KPI is the only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser.
John Ragone, Plant Process Optimization Manager, Electric Production at National Grid, was presented this prestigious industry award at the Manufacturing in the 21st Century Executive Summit on December 4, 2007 in Boston, Mass. “Transpara’s Visual KPI has become an important arrow in our quiver of tools used to maximize operational performance, and I am honored to be recognized by Aberdeen for our ongoing technology initiatives which improve how we do business,” said Ragone. “Because we leveraged software and technology that our employees were already familiar with, such as the OSIsoft PI System and employees’ mobile phones, we set ourselves up for success – success with the adoption of Visual KPI and success with realizing benefits that positively impact our bottom line.”
Based on Aberdeen’s research, National Grid was recognized for its innovative use of technology by creating role-based access to critical operations data and applying a unified visualization capability in different areas of operations, such as fuel loading and maintenance management. Visual KPI enabled National Grid to leverage cell phones as critical information display devices and set up automated alerts based off of SPC exceptions. With the help of remote data accessibility, National Grid is realizing the following benefits:
- increased collaboration among team members across various departments;
- proactive management of environmental incidents;
- significant savings from a reduction in operator overtime costs and improved operator productivity.
The Manufacturing Achievement Awards for excellence were selected solely on Aberdeen’s research of the past 12 months. National Grid won the Innovation in Technology Award for maximizing technology solutions to solve pressing supply chain issues and positively impact company performance.
“We are pleased to have National Grid as our 2007 Aberdeen Achievement Award winner for Innovation in Technology,” said Bharat Nair, SVP and Research Director with Aberdeen’s Global Manufacturing Practice. “They were able to successfully identify advanced technology with significant business value for their manufacturing environment, giving them a competitive advantage and cost savings opportunities.”
About Visual KPI
Visual KPI delivers role-based, real-time operating data in context, enabling timely, intelligent decision making from any location. With support for more than 150 mobile devices, Visual KPI enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards without any additional programming, using information from any combination of existing data sources, including the OSIsoft PI System, Rockwell RSSQL, Invensys InSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SmartSignal, OLE DB and Web Services. Leveraging the Microsoft infrastructure for all installations, Visual KPI is based on the familiar platform of Microsoft Excel, Internet Information Server and SQL Server 2005, and is the only composite KPI engine that works with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including Excel Services, Business Scorecard Manager and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
About National Grid
National Grid is an international energy delivery company. In the U.S., National Grid delivers electricity to approximately 3.3 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, and manages the electricity network on Long Island under an agreement with the Long Island Power Authority. National Grid is the largest power producer in New York State, owning 6,650 megawatts of electricity generation that provides power to over one million LIPA customers and supplies roughly a quarter of New York City’s electricity needs. It is also the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern U.S., serving approximately 3.4 million customers in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. www.nationalgridus.com
About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company
Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen™ for insights that drive decisions. As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen plays a key role of putting content in context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen’s analytical and independent view of the “customer optimization” process of Harte-Hanks (Information – Opportunity – Insight – Engagement – Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role Harte-Hanks brings to the market. For additional information, visit http://www.aberdeen.com.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara establishes corporate transparency throughout the enterprise with Visual KPI, operations intelligence software that provides enterprise customers in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser. The only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software available, Visual KPI aggregates operations information from multiple, existing data sources and delivers role-based, actionable KPIs to users via the desktop, laptop, or more than 150 mobile devices. Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain have on-demand access to consistent, business-critical operating measures, enabling stakeholders to monitor their entire asset base, and implement such initiatives as Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. With Visual KPI, customers improve performance, while reducing operating costs and lowering business risk. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Western Australian Utility Implements Composite Key Performance Indicator Software for Improved Tracking of Operational Performance
Transpara Corporation today announced that Western Power, an electricity networks corporation in Western Australia distributing power along more than 88,000 miles of transmission lines, will implement Visual KPI for improved tracking of operational performance. Visual KPI is the only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser.
Western Power is currently using Visual KPI as: the key support tool for operational SCADA; a real-time trending tool for monitoring asset performance against limits; a real-time alerting tool for monitoring generation fuel mix and tracking the contribution of wind generation to their system total generation. Visual KPI will also be used as a KPI tracking tool for key customer, fault outage and duration measurements, such as the Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI), a reliability index.
“Once we realized the value of Visual KPI and potential for significant cost savings and increased productivity, we decided to increase adoption across the enterprise, to more than 900 users who will access business-critical operational data via mobile devices and traditional web displays,” said Julian Rouse, System Administration Manager at Western Power. “Visual KPI puts accurate and key operational information in the hands of people who need it, exactly when and where they need it, which more often than not, is out in the field. Visual KPI is fast becoming a must-have tool for us to improve our operations. For that reason, everyone from frontline SCADA support staff, System Controllers, Operations Engineers and Managers will rely on it for real-time tracking of operational conditions and asset performance.”
Over the next six months, Western Power will roll out Visual KPI to their head office site and two operational control centers. Visual KPI leverages Western Power’s existing technology investments, integrating with the PI System from OSIsoft, as well as frontline operational SCADA systems, corporate ratings and limits databases.
About Visual KPI
Visual KPI delivers role-based, real-time operating data in context, enabling timely, intelligent decision making from any location. With support for more than 150 mobile devices, Visual KPI enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards without any additional programming, using information from any combination of existing data sources, including the OSIsoft PI System, Rockwell RSSQL, Invensys InSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SmartSignal, OLE DB and Web Services. Leveraging the Microsoft infrastructure for all installations, Visual KPI is based on the familiar platform of Microsoft Excel, Internet Information Server and SQL Server 2005, and is the only composite KPI engine that works with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including Excel Services, Business Scorecard Manager and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
About Western Power
Western Power is responsible for the safe, reliable and efficient distribution and transmission of electricity in the South West of Western Australia. The company connects electricity to homes and businesses, and maintains and expands the electricity network. An electricity networks corporation, Western Power is owned by the Western Australian Government but, as a corporation, makes commercial decisions based on regulations. Visit http://www.westernpower.com.au/ for more information.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara establishes corporate transparency throughout the enterprise with Visual KPI, operations intelligence software that provides enterprise customers in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser. The only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software available, Visual KPI aggregates operations information from multiple, existing data sources and delivers role-based, actionable KPIs to users via the desktop, laptop, or more than 150 mobile devices. Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain have on-demand access to consistent, business-critical operating measures, enabling stakeholders to monitor their entire asset base, and implement such initiatives as Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. With Visual KPI, customers improve performance, while reducing operating costs and lowering business risk. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Automation World – November 2007
“All of our other systems are either event-driven, as in alarms, or scheduled. With Visual KPI, information is on demand, available whenever needed, and updated by the minute,” says John Ragone, National Grid. “Like everyone, we have to do more with less. We had it up and running in a week—without needing an integrator.” More…
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Composite Key Performance Indicator Software Delivers Advanced Flexibility, Data Delivery and Visualization
Transpara Corporation today announced Visual KPI 3.0, the only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any browser: laptop, desktop or mobile device. With version 3.0, users can consolidate hundreds, or even thousands, of real-time KPIs into a single, at-a-glance view of their entire asset hierarchy. Attribute-driven scorecards and True Roll-Up Charts eliminate the need to configure KPIs multiple times and provide an accurate picture of KPIs regardless of how many are present in the entire set. Visual KPI 3.0 provides flexibility for users to group relevant, role-based data at run-time, and advanced visualization for real-time decision making based on composite KPI maps.
American Electric Power (AEP), one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., which delivers electricity to more than five million customers in 11 states, is implementing Visual KPI 3.0 across its fleet of generation plants and in its central generation dispatch office. “Since our initial pilot project more than two years ago, Visual KPI has proven to be a critical tool in delivering a visualized alarming capability for our PI systems, enabling our operating teams to quickly assess their situational awareness of key process indicators,” said Kevin Stogran, Director of Market Operations Support, AEP. “In one tool, we now have the ability to deliver KPIs to either a PDA, a desktop monitor or a large flat panel, all driven from the same configuration setup. This has eliminated a lot of configuration duplication and has enabled the end user to truly see what they want, how they want, and where they want in one easy step.”
Visual KPI enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards without any programming, using information from any combination of existing data sources, including the OSIsoft PI System, Rockwell RSSQL, Invensys InSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SmartSignal, OLE DB and Web Services.
“Enterprise customers are looking for solutions to manage and effectively use the massive amounts of data generated from multiple and disparate sources throughout the organization,” said Bharat Nair, SVP and Research Director with Aberdeen’s Global Manufacturing Practice. “Transpara enables customers to extend the power of their existing data sources to mobile devices, and deliver actionable, role-based data to personnel, no matter where they are, in the field or in the office. With Visual KPI 3.0, data is presented in context, through intuitive KPI maps and scorecard views, ensuring users throughout the organization have real-time operations intelligence at their fingertips for smart, fast decision making.”
New Features of Visual KPI 3.0 include:
- True Roll-Up Charts (TRU Charts): Collapse KPIs into single view without additional configuration to view relevant, role-based KPIs.
- Attribute-driven Scorecards and Views: Create Scorecards and Views using SQL queries with a built-in ‘Query by Example’ editor (no SQL knowledge is required.)
- User-Defined Calculation Engine: Create KPIs that include basic equations, allowing KPI Attributes to be derived from real-time values and other Attributes.
- Run-time grouping: Regroup data at run-time and as needed, creating tailored views for the task at hand, e.g. show KPIs grouped by ‘Priority.’
- Advanced Visualization: KPI and scorecard views with additional color, mapping and layout schemes provide users with improved visibility into role-based data. Bar charts improve analysis of KPI values in context, which is especially useful for KPIs with physical limits.
- Advanced Navigation: Pervasive hyperlinks speed up information location and analysis.
- Mobile Device Support: Support for more than 150 mobile devices includes the new Motorola MC35 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA) and the Apple iPhone.
- Advanced Integration: With advanced support for data sources using ODBC, Web Services and Excel Services (part of MOSS 2007), users have more flexibility and access to use KPIs already calculated somewhere else in their organization.
Availability
Transpara’s Visual KPI 3.0 is available immediately. For more information, visit www.transpara.com or contact the company directly at (925) 218-6983.
About Transpara
Transpara establishes corporate transparency throughout the enterprise with Visual KPI, operations intelligence software that provides enterprise customers in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser. The only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software available, Visual KPI aggregates operations information from multiple, existing data sources and delivers role-based, actionable KPIs to users via the desktop, laptop, or more than 150 mobile devices. Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain have on-demand access to consistent, business-critical operating measures, enabling stakeholders to monitor their entire asset base, and implement such initiatives as Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. With Visual KPI, customers improve performance, while reducing operating costs and lowering business risk. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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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.
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Energy Central – October 2007
Theres no question that handhelds have become standard battle gear for executives and senior managers. But what about personnel in the field: the plant manager, technician or engineer?
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Transpara Achieves SymbolPLUS Validated Status; Validates Visual KPI Functionality on Motorola MC35
Transpara Corporation, a leading provider of mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software, today announced support for Motorola’s MC35 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA), an all-in-one communication device that harnesses the voice and data applications people expect from an office setting and delivers them in the form of a durable and compact handheld mobile computer. Transpara’s Visual KPI provides customers in the manufacturing and utility sectors with on-demand, business-critical operations data via any mobile or desktop web browser. The software received SymbolPLUS Validated status through Motorola’s Solutions Validation Program. Transpara’s support for Motorola’s newest enterprise digital assistant provides customers with a trusted, integrated solution to gain visibility into plant floor data, effectively monitor performance, and align KPIs with business goals, directly from their mobile device.
“Motorola’s MC35 EDA gives managers and executives more information and timely insights into day-to-day operations, enabling them to respond quickly and accurately to changing conditions,” said Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara. “As a Motorola partner, Transpara provides customers with tested, end-to-end enterprise mobility solutions that leverage the benefits of Motorola’s mobile computers with Transpara’s Visual KPI software.”
Visual KPI delivers role-based, real-time operating data in context, enabling timely decision making from any location. With support for more than 150 mobile devices, Visual KPI enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards without any additional programming, using information from any combination of existing data sources, including OSIsoft’s PI System, SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB and Web Services. Tailored at run-time to fit the screen size requirements of individual devices, KPI and scorecard views make it easy to collect, view and act on data, and can be published for instant use by anyone in the organization or supply chain, from plant floor managers and technicians in the field to executives.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara establishes corporate transparency throughout the enterprise with Visual KPI, manufacturing intelligence software that provides customers in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any mobile or desktop web browser. The only mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software available, Visual KPI combines operations information from multiple, existing data sources and delivers role-based KPIs to more than 150 mobile devices, including iPhone/iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile. Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain have on-demand access to business-critical operating measures, enabling stakeholders to quickly and easily create and distribute KPIs in order to monitor their entire asset base, and implement such initiatives as Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. With Visual KPI, customers improve operations performance, while reducing operating costs and lowering business risk. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Aberdeen Highlights KeySpan Energy Case Study in Report on Increasing Productivity without Additional Capital Investments
Transpara Corporation, the leading provider of mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software, today announced sponsorship of the July 2007 Aberdeen report, titled “Manufacturing IQ: Taking Manufacturing Intelligence to the Enterprise.” The benchmark report finds that best-in-class customers implement Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions across the organization and supply chain network to deliver automated alerts, real-time visibility, and contextualization of plant floor data to drive operational intelligence. Transpara’s EMI solution, web-based Visual KPI software, provides customers in the manufacturing and utility sectors with on-demand, role-based operations data on any mobile device or desktop.
Based on the findings of the report, Bharat Nair, SVP and Research Director with Aberdeen’s Global Manufacturing Practice, offers the following recommendations for action:
- Implement EMI to integrate plant floor data from disparate sources with business content to provide operational intelligence;
- Drive EMI initiatives under the sponsorship of plant floor management responsible for operational performance;
- Implement role-based dashboards throughout the plant floor;
- Adopt remote access capabilities to provide visibility of critical data and to send alerts to key decision makers.
“While providing visibility to data is essential in a complex global manufacturing environment, putting this data into operational and business context and leveraging this intelligence to drive actions in real-time is what delivers competitive advantage to manufacturing enterprises,” said Nair. “With Visual KPI, Transpara is transforming performance management, delivering real-time, role-based data to any mobile device, including cell phones, with minimal training or new technology adoption required from personnel in the field. Visual KPI is an EMI solution that leverages existing technology investments to deliver fast ROI to the enterprise.”
Also included in the report is a case study detailing how KeySpan Energy, New York’s largest electric generator, uses Transpara’s EMI solution, Visual KPI. “With our EMI implementation leveraging cell phones to deliver key KPIs any time, all the time, our technicians and supervisors are able to get real-time information they need to do their jobs no matter where they are in the field,” said John Ragone, Plant Process Optimization Manager, Electric Production Department at KeySpan Energy. “This results in significant cost savings by ensuring peak asset performance, savings from lost generation costs, and energy replacement costs.”
More than 200 manufacturers participated in the study, including: Ashok Leyland, Baxter Healthcare, British Telecommunications, Cisco Systems, Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics, Panasonic Industrial, Co, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Nokia, Nestle, Philips Lighting, New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc, Unilever SA and Volvo.
About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company
Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen™ for insights that drive decisions. As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen plays a key role of putting content in context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen’s analytical and independent view of the “customer optimization” process of Harte-Hanks (Information – Opportunity – Insight – Engagement – Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role Harte-Hanks brings to the market. For additional information, visit http://www.aberdeen.com.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara’s Visual KPI establishes corporate transparency throughout the enterprise with mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software. The only manufacturing intelligence software that integrates operations information from any combination of existing data sources, Visual KPI provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any handheld, cell phone or desktop web browser. Transpara ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from technicians and plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to quickly and easily create and distribute KPIs in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers improve operations performance, while reducing operating costs and lowering business risk. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Visual KPI Plug-In for Manufacturing Control Network (MCN) Health Monitor Delivers On-Demand Access to IT Performance Data
Transpara Corporation and OSIsoft today announced Visual KPI MCN Quick Start, a joint technology solution for mobile monitoring of IT infrastructure performance data. Transpara’s Visual KPI plug-in for OSIsoft’s Manufacturing Control Network (MCN) Health Monitor enables process manufacturing customers to detect IT performance issues from any handheld or desktop web browser. Visual KPI delivers business-critical operating data to any mobile device—cell phone, PDA or SmartPhone—enabling timely incident resolution, increased uptime and process efficiency with on-demand access to IT performance data stored in a PI Server
“Continuous monitoring of IT systems and advanced notification of potential infrastructure anomalies are critical to the success of a process manufacturing organization,” said Martin Otterson, Director, Sales & Business Development – Data Center and IT Solutions Group at OSIsoft. “By offering handheld, mobile and browser-based access to MCN Health Monitor, Visual KPI extends the already-significant value derived from MCN alone, providing customers with timely access to powerful decision support data.”
MCN Health Monitor extends the OSIsoft PI System enterprise data historian capabilities to IT asset monitoring, offering an additional layer of functionality that detects potential issues to performance, network problems and network bottlenecks within the manufacturing IT infrastructure. A set of templates for KPIs, Scorecards and Views allows for fast deployment of Visual KPI with existing MCN Health Monitor customers and delivers ROI that can be measured in days. Visual KPI MCN Quick Start is available immediately.
About OSIsoft
OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com) delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise historians, as the core of its real-time infrastructure platform. A global base of more than 11,000 installations across manufacturing, energy, utilities, life sciences and other process industries relies upon the OSIsoft PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational health in order to manage assets, mitigate risks, and identify new market opportunities. Founded in 1980, OSIsoft, Inc. is headquartered in San Leandro, Calif., with operations worldwide and is privately held.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara’s Visual KPI establishes corporate transparency throughout the enterprise with mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software. The only manufacturing intelligence software that integrates operations information from any combination of existing data sources, Visual KPI provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any handheld, cell phone or desktop web browser. Transpara ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from technicians and plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to quickly and easily create and distribute KPIs in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers improve operations performance, while reducing operating costs and lowering business risk. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. Visit www.transpara.com for more information.
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Browser-Based Visual KPI Software Delivers Operations Data Directly to Users’ Cell Phones
Transpara Corporation, the leading provider of mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software, today announced support for the Apple® iPhone. Visual KPI provides customers in the manufacturing and utility sectors with on-demand operations data using the Safari browser of the iPhone. Tailored to fit the iPhone screen and built on the familiar platform of Excel and SQL Server, Visual KPI delivers business-critical operating data in context, enabling timely decision making from any location. With role-based, real-time KPIs at users’ fingertips, organizations gain visibility into plant floor data, enabling continuous performance monitoring and reduced operating costs.
“Personnel in the manufacturing and utility industries who are responsible for ensuring 24/7 business operations and handling incident response rely heavily on their cell phones,” said Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara. “Because Visual KPI was created to specifically address the needs of the mobile worker, users can now access real-time operations data from any cell phone or handheld device. With support for iPhone, Transpara offers customers another option for delivering Visual KPI and web-based business data to their mobile workforce.”
With support for more than 100 mobile devices, Visual KPI enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards without any additional programming, using information from any combination of existing data sources, including OSIsoft’s PI System, SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB and Web Services. Tailored at run-time to fit the screen size requirements of individual devices, KPI and scorecard views make it easy to collect, view and act on your data, and can be published for instant use by anyone in the organization or supply chain, from plant floor managers and technicians in the field to executives.
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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