Creating a great product requires careful listening. When we started the journey to create Seeq, the leadership team had decades of context and user input. Companies told us that they needed to get more value out of their data. "We know the answer is in the data, it's just too hard to find," for example. “We’re data rich and information poor,” was a common complaint. So, our intent was to address this market need by creating the best visual analytics application for process manufacturing data.
Seeq support for Microsoft, and Microsoft Azure specifically, took another step forward last week. On top of Seeq’s existing investments in Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server support, Active Directory integration, PowerBI and Excel export features, and SQL Server connectivity, Seeq has now added Azure Active Directory support and integration with Azure IoT Hub.
The 4th of July is fast approaching which means summer, hot weather, beaches, and sharks. Ironically, most shark attacks in North America happen in the fall, but the important thing is sharks are what many people fear about the beach. They should instead worry about sunscreen, sandals, and a towel, but it’s the extreme edge case that captures their imagination courtesy of Jaws (and maybe Sharknado?). And if you are wondering, the odds are 1 in 3.7M (ish) of dying from a shark attack, but that likely isn’t going to calm the fears of many actually on a beach and staring out at the sea.
This year, Seeq participated for the first time in the Industrial Exhibit in Hannover Germany, which is one of the largest such trade shows in the world. With over 6,800 exhibitors, 225,000 visitors, and 8 million square feet, I knew this was going to be big. I didn’t realize in advance I would walk 7 miles per day, but in hindsight I think I got off easy.
It was another great OSIsoft Users Conference in San Francisco last week. The OSIsoft Users Conference is the world’s largest gathering of OSIsoft customers and partners, and I believe this year was in fact the biggest ever based on the number of attendees. Very busy, very big, and an important opportunity for Seeq customers.
“Fail fast” is a saying in startup companies: it means that it's fine to be wrong about something, just figure it out quickly, take the learning and move on. As Seeq ventures into 2017 with customer presentations and vendor announcements at the ARC conference and looks ahead to the OSIsoft User Conference in San Francisco, it’s been interesting to look back at some things that we’ve learned in the last year.
