Seeq Expands Support and Integration with OSIsoft PI System

New features for the industry-leading OSIsoft PI platform accelerate IIoT and process manufacturing visual data analytics.

San Francisco – Presenting today at the OSIsoft Users Conference 2017, the world’s largest gathering of OSIsoft customers and partners, Seeq Corporation announced the imminent release of Seeq R17, which includes new features expanding support for the OSIsoft PI^® System^®.

Seeq is a visual analytics application for engineers and scientists in process manufacturing organizations who need to rapidly wrangle, investigate, and share insights on production data. Seeq has been recognized by multiple analyst firms for its modern approach to the timeless problem of finding actionable insights in complex data sets.

“As customers store and manage increasing volumes of data in the OSIsoft PI System, they need faster and smarter ways to leverage this data to improve operations,” says Tim Johnson, Director, Partners and Strategic Alliances with OSIsoft. “The new OSIsoft-specific features of Seeq will make it easier for our shared customers to rapidly gain insights and drive improvements in yield, quality, and margins within process manufacturing organizations.”

“We are very pleased with the progress in our partnership with OSIsoft,” says Steve Sliwa, CEO and co-founder of Seeq Corporation. “The introduction of these industry-leading integration features speaks to the feedback and enthusiasm from our shared customers to get even more value from their PI system data.”

Specific features in Seeq that enable integration with the OSIsoft PI System include:

Deployment Flexibility: Seeq can connect to PI Systems deployed in any configuration: a single enterprise historian, distributed PI Systems located across many different locations, and in L2 or L3 networks. Connections can be on premises, or with PI running on a cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure.

Discovery and Installation: Seeq automatically detects the presence of PI System credentials and creates a connection for rapid indexing of all tags and sensors in just minutes. Once indexed, any PI System tag or sensor may be searched with Google-like speed and flexibility from within Seeq.

OSIsoft Vision (formerly OSIsoft Coresight): Seeq has added integration for OSIsoft Vision in Seeq R17, which enables analytics and views created in Seeq to be published to users in OSIsoft Vision dashboards and display panels.

Asset Framework: OSIsoft customers can bring their investment in Asset Framework forward with Seeq’s integrated asset visualization tools, including the ability to create “asset relative” displays so calculations on one asset may be applied to another set of assets.

Event Frames and PI Batch: OSIsoft customers can leverage their investment in Event Frames data in Seeq Workbench to leverage the context information captured in their PI System, and Seeq also supports legacy PI Batch investments for analytics and investigation.

PI Notifications Integration: Seeq can be configured to support integration with PI Notifications and write data back to PI Systems, enabling other users to take advantage of regression analysis, predictive analytics, and other calculations created in Seeq and stored with the source data sets.

Microsoft Partnership: Like OSIsoft, Seeq is a Microsoft partner. Seeq runs on Windows Server, supports Active Directory for user management, connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server, and has integration with Microsoft Excel and the Azure Cortana Intelligence Suite for visualization and reporting.

“Seeq’s extensive integration with OSIsoft PI makes it quicker and easier for users in industrial organizations to gain valuable insights from their data to support better decisions. Significantly, those users don’t have to be data scientists,” notes Janice Abel principal analyst, ARC Advisory Group. “ARC believes these capabilities provide a compelling value proposition for the mutual customers of the two companies.”

Both Seeq and OSIsoft serve customers in virtually every process manufacturing industry, and both are building support for key Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments such as remote asset monitoring and cloud computing platforms.

The combination of these two companies and products, working together, enables their customers to get the best of a world class data management platform combined with rapid, interactive visual data analytics on collected data. Users can now rapidly achieve insights to improve production results, opening up new opportunities by significantly reducing implementation time from months to hours.