Aberdeen Group – July 2007
The top pressure driving manufacturers towards Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) initiatives is to increase productivity without additional capital investments. Read report…
Vendors Selected by Gartner for the “Cool Vendor” Report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing
Transpara Corporation has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in Manufacturing, 2007” Gartner report. The report, which lists Transpara as a vendor that plays across a broad set of manufacturing verticals, was issued on March 6, 2007, by analysts Dan Miklovic, Dale Hagemeyer, Marc Halpern and Jim Duggan. Transpara’s Visual KPI operations intelligence software delivers on-demand, business-critical data about process manufacturing and utility operations to any handheld or desktop browser: SmartPhones, PDAs and Blackberry devices.
The report states: “Manufacturers must look beyond traditional large enterprise systems vendors for technology and applications that can provide competitive advantage. Manufacturers that are striving to react in real time to the dynamics of their business need to invest in tools that make key performance indicators available to any user, regardless of location.”
“With Transpara, customers can be up and running in just a couple of hours, and will realize significant ROI in a matter of weeks,” said Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara. “We believe Gartner’s recognition of Transpara as a Cool Vendor validates the need for applications such as Visual KPI in the process manufacturing and utilities industry, where mobility is becoming pervasive, and the ability to access business-critical data on any handheld is a natural extension of organizations’ current technology investments.”
With Visual KPI, users can easily create and customize composite Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and scorecards using data from any combination of existing systems – including OSIsoft’s PI System, SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB and Web Services – and publish them for instant use by anyone in the organization or supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives. By delivering actionable, decision-support information directly to the responsible user, Visual KPI offers real-time insight into organizational performance, increasing uptime and lowering business risk.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara (www.transpara.com) delivers operations intelligence software that provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser, whether on hand-held devices or the desktop. Transpara’s Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to create and distribute Key Performance Indicators in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers reduce operating costs and lower business risk by promoting corporate transparency and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Six Sigma, Title V and Sarbanes-Oxley. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.
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Transpara is a registered trademark of Transpara Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Partnership with Marathon Technologies Ensures Highest Level of Availability for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on Any Desktop or Handheld Browser
Transpara Corporation today announced a partnership with Marathon Technologies, which enables users in the process manufacturing and utility industries to eliminate downtime and ensure 24/7, real-time access to business-critical operational data. The only mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software available, Visual KPI delivers on-demand operations data to any handheld or desktop browser: SmartPhones, PDAs and Blackberry devices. The combined offering of Visual KPI and Marathon’s everRunTM ensures decision-makers throughout the organization can access KPI data that is reliable, actionable and available.
“Transpara has hit on an important trend in the manufacturing sector – aggregating data from multiple sources and delivering it through mobile devices. In order to truly leverage enterprise mobility, 24/7 access to data is a necessity,” said Gary Phillips, president and CEO of Marathon Technologies. “With everRun, we offer significant value to the end user, providing a proven, cost-effective answer for automated availability, reliability and data protection.”
Visual KPI enables users to easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards without any additional programming, using data from any combination of existing systems, including OSIsoft’s PI System, SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB and Web Services. KPIs and scorecards can then be published for instant use by anyone in the organization or supply chain, from plant floor managers and technicians in the field to executives.
“Marathon Technologies’ unique approach to Microsoft Windows availability makes it a seamless and easy choice to enable continuous uptime for Visual KPI,” said Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara. “With everRun, Visual KPI runs unchanged on commodity-priced hardware, allowing customers to benefit from fault tolerant-class availability at a fraction of the price of alternative hardware-based solutions. With Marathon, customers never miss a beat and always have key metrics at their fingertips.”
About Marathon Technologies
Marathon Technologies Corporation is driving the convergence of availability and virtualization technologies through its v-Available™ initiative. Marathon is the only company to deliver a complete range of automated, fault tolerant-class availability and disaster recovery software solutions for all essential Windows applications. The company’s everRun™ product family protects businesses by ensuring continuity of operations in virtual and physical environments. Marathon is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Littleton, Massachusetts, USA, with offices worldwide. For more information please visit www.marathontechnologies.com.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara (www.transpara.com) delivers operations intelligence software that provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser, whether on hand-held devices or the desktop. Transpara’s Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to create and distribute Key Performance Indicators in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers reduce operating costs and lower business risk by promoting corporate transparency and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Six Sigma, Title V and Sarbanes-Oxley. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.
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Transpara is a registered trademark of Transpara Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Download PDF: Marathon Technologies and Transpara Partnership Delivers 24/7 Access to Operations Data throughout Organization
KeySpan and Allegheny Extend Value of SmartSignal’s Predictive Analytics Solution with Transpara’s Visual KPI
Transpara Corporation today announced a technology partnership with SmartSignal Corporation, which enables joint customers to access critical performance-monitoring data and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on any mobile device. Transpara’s Visual KPI operations intelligence software delivers on-demand, business-critical data about process manufacturing and utility operations to any handheld or desktop browser: Smartphones, PDAs and Blackberry devices. Connecting Visual KPI to the SmartSignal Solution enables customers such as KeySpan Corporation and Allegheny Energy, Inc. to further extend the ROI on their SmartSignal investments by giving them access to dynamic Watchlists and real-time Predictive Analytics on any mobile device.
“One of our biggest challenges has been to present information from new technology systems without taking our operators, technicians, mechanics, foremen and engineers out of the field to look at it,” said John Ragone, automation manager, Electric Production Department of KeySpan Corporation. “What if, for example, we were talking about personal health instead of a turbine: heart rate, temperature and blood pressure would be monitored and available to a team of specialists. No matter where these specialists were, they would have the ability to monitor hundreds of patients’ data simultaneously and collaborate with the rest of the health team to provide the best possible recommendations in real-time, if a patient were to deviate from expected baselines. The same benefits can be applied to the plant floor. With Visual KPI, it’s all about team collaboration and the data is as close as a cell phone – that’s awesome. Organizations can timeshare all the skill sets of subject matter experts at a fraction of the cost to have them available to you exclusively…. home run!”
“By supporting a native interface to SmartSignal, Transpara enables customers to stay on top of the most critical equipment health issues no matter where they are,” said James Gagnard, President and CEO, SmartSignal. “Customers trust SmartSignal as their go-to solution for reducing unplanned downtime and improving maintenance programs. By extending SmartSignal’s Watchlist and additional operational data to mobile devices, Transpara significantly improves business performance, putting information at customers’ fingertips exactly when they need it and expanding users’ ability to act on warnings about potential equipment and process problems in advance.”
With Visual KPI, users can easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards using data from any combination of existing systems – including OSIsoft’s PI System, SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB and Web Services – and publish them for instant use by anyone in the organization or supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives. By delivering actionable, decision-support information directly to the responsible user, Visual KPI offers real-time insight into organizational performance, increasing uptime and lowering business risk.
About SmartSignal
SmartSignal helps power-generation plants improve uptime, reduce unnecessary maintenance expenses, and increase revenue. SmartSignal’s clients in power generation represent over 350,000 megawatts of power; other SmartSignal clients include industry leaders in refining, pipelines, petrochemicals, airlines, mining, and process manufacturing. SmartSignal has been widely acclaimed in the press, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, and many more leading business journals. In 2006, SmartSignal was one of only three software companies worldwide to win a Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award. In both 2004 and 2005, SmartSignal was a finalist for the prestigious Platts Global Energy Award in the “Commercial Technology of the Year” category. SmartSignal, along with SAP and its client, Delta Air Lines, also won the APICS “Technology Partnership Award of Excellence.” For further information, visit www.smartsignal.com.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara (www.transpara.com) delivers operations intelligence software that provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser, whether on hand-held devices or the desktop. Transpara’s Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to create and distribute Key Performance Indicators in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers reduce operating costs and lower business risk by promoting corporate transparency and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Six Sigma, Title V and Sarbanes-Oxley. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.
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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 SmartSignal Partner to Deliver Mobile Performance Monitoring Solution to Joint Customers
Microsoft-Certified Operations Intelligence Software Provides Process Manufacturing and Utility Organizations with On-Demand, Mobile Access to Business-Critical Data
Transpara Corporation today announced the company has been selected as a Microsoft Certified ISV (Independent Software Vendor) partner. The only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) engine available on the market, Visual KPI delivers business-critical data about process manufacturing and utility operations to any browser. Based on the familiar platform of Microsoft Excel, Internet Information Server and SQL Server 2005, Visual KPI works with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including Excel Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Transpara’s Visual KPI 2.1 operations intelligence software met the criteria for the Microsoft Platform Test for ISV Solutions program: Windows Server and SQL Server 2005. Microsoft ISV Partner Certification testing was completed by VeriTest ®, the testing service of Lionbridge (Nasdaq: LIOX).
“Our enhanced ISV relationship with Microsoft demonstrates Transpara’s commitment to our customers, who can further leverage their investment in Microsoft infrastructure with our certified Visual KPI software,” said Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara. “Our customers demand the highest level of integration as they introduce new technologies onto the plant floor. Microsoft’s certification of Visual KPI offers customers fast, straightforward deployment and immediate ROI in extending timely and critical operations data to PDAs, smartphones and Blackberries.”
With Visual KPI, users can easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards without any additional programming, access data from any combination of existing systems – including Excel Services, Business Scorecard Manager, any ODBC data source and OSIsoft’s PI system – and publish them for instant use by anyone in the organization or supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara (www.transpara.com) delivers operations intelligence software that provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser, whether on hand-held devices or the desktop. Transpara’s Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to create and distribute Key Performance Indicators in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers reduce operating costs and lower business risk by promoting corporate transparency and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Six Sigma, Title V and Sarbanes-Oxley. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.
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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 Selected as Microsoft Certified ISV Partner
Control Global – April 2, 2007
“We know how to produce electric power safely and efficiently,” says John Ragone, National Grid. “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.” More…
Feed Forward – March 8, 2007
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. Look at the connected mobile phones. Transpara takes historian data and formats it for PDA and cell phone sized devices. Yesterday Invensys Process Systems announced that it will be a reseller.
Invensys to Use Transpara’s Visual KPI to Help Customer Plant Personnel to Remotely Monitor Process Variables and KPIs from Their Existing Mobile Communications Devices
Transpara Corporation and Invensys Process Systems today announced a global partnership, through which Invensys Process Systems becomes a global reseller and certified implementer for Transpara’s Visual KPI operations intelligence software. The only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) engine available on the market, Visual KPI delivers on-demand, business-critical data about process manufacturing and utility operations to any handheld or desktop browser.
“Transpara’s innovative Visual KPI technology will provide important incremental value for our large installed based of automation customers,” said Chris Lyden, vice president of global marketing at Invensys Process Systems. “This new technology will enable personnel in our customers’ process manufacturing and utility plants to remotely monitor – in near-real-time – both process variables and custom-defined KPIs from their familiar handheld mobile computing or communications devices, including both PDAs and SmartPhones.”
Consistent with Invensys’ open, platform-independent solution approach, the composite source data for the KPIs can come from a variety of different data sources, including OSIsoft’s PI System or Invensys’ own InSQL or InFusion plant historians, working in conjunction with any Invensys or non-Invensys automation, information, or computerized maintenance management platform.
With Visual KPI, users can easily create and customize composite KPIs and scorecards using data from any combination of existing systems – including OSIsoft’s PI System, SQL Server, Oracle, OLE DB and Web Services – and publish them for instant use by anyone in the organization or supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives. By delivering actionable, decision-support information directly to the responsible user, Visual KPI offers real-time insight into organizational performance, lowering business risk and promoting corporate transparency.
About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses include industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills. For more information on Invensys’ process automation businesses, please visit www.invensys.com. The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara (www.transpara.com) delivers operations intelligence software that provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser, whether on hand-held devices or the desktop. Transpara’s Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to create and distribute Key Performance Indicators in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers reduce operating costs and lower business risk by promoting corporate transparency and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Six Sigma, Title V and Sarbanes-Oxley. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.
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Transpara is a registered trademark of Transpara Corporation. Invensys, SimiSci-Esscor, Foxboro, Triconex, Wonderware and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiearies, or affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Download PDF: Invensys and Transpara Announce Global Partnership
Energy Central – March 5, 2007
If companies don’t have clear insight into their operations – including remote assets that are challenging to manage for many companies – then energy efficiency and carbon reporting will be inaccurate and cumbersome. More…
Leading Value Added Resellers Partner with Transpara to Deliver Operations Intelligence Software to Manufacturing and Utility Industries
Transpara Corporation today announced the Transpara Partner Program, a global channel initiative to extend adoption of Visual KPI, the only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) engine available on the market, to manufacturing and utility industry customers worldwide. Visual KPI delivers on-demand, business-critical data about process manufacturing and utility operations to any PDA, SmartPhone or desktop.
“The distribution of real-time KPIs plays a major role in our customers’ business strategy,” said Ingo Mühlenhoff, Head of Division-PI, MEGLA GmbH (Germany). “With Transpara’s Visual KPI, we’re able to provide an innovative solution to a whole new class of customers looking to access on-demand data and scorecards on any browser, including handheld devices. By extending adoption of Transpara’s software, especially in an environment where mobile technology investments are on the rise, we’re looking forward to increased revenue opportunities and growth for MEGLA GmbH.”
Transpara’s Partner Program, which already reaches customers in 12 countries, enables integrators and service providers to strengthen relationships and grow revenue within their customer base and promote financial success through deployments of Transpara’s operations intelligence software. Current partners include: Amitec, Intellitech, IsyDev, MEGLA GmbH, NetWoven, NextGen Software Inc, Oval-ITech, and Rovisys.
“Our partners offer best-of-breed expertise to customers around the world, and are critical in helping companies leverage the power of enterprise mobility,” said Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara. “Expanding our VAR program is an important next step in promoting adoption of Visual KPI and helping customers realize the significant business benefits of on-demand, mobile access to operations data, whether in the executive suite or on the plant floor.”
Transpara’s partner program includes:
Transpara is actively recruiting additional VAR and ISV partners. To learn more about the program, email info@transpara.com or visit www.transpara.com/partners.
About Transpara Corporation
Transpara delivers operations intelligence software that provides mobile professionals in the process and utility industries with real-time asset and operating data on any web browser, whether on hand-held devices or the desktop. Transpara’s Visual KPI ensures that responsible parties throughout the organization and supply chain, from plant floor managers to executives, have on-demand access to business-sensitive information, enabling stakeholders to create and distribute Key Performance Indicators in order to monitor their entire asset base. With Transpara, customers reduce operating costs and lower business risk by promoting corporate transparency and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Six Sigma, Title V and Sarbanes-Oxley. Transpara is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.
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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 Launches Global Partner Program