OSIsoft Unveils PI Notifications and PI AF 2.0
Industry Standard in Data Historians Delivers Enhanced Data Management, Real- time and Archived Event Notification with New Notifications Product
SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Jan. 23 -- OSIsoft, the leader in performance management software, today announced the availability of PI Notifications, an alarm and alerting infrastructure, and PI AF 2.0, the underlying structural database. PI Notifications and PI AF extend data management and real-time event notification delivery with intuitive visualization and a highly integrated infrastructure, enabling customers to easily access, organize and provide alerts on their data. The new offerings within the PI System data historian platform deliver enhanced scalability, redundancy and workflow management across the enterprise.
Alerts and alarms created with PI Notifications are stored in the PI Server, ensuring they are readily available for fast search and analysis. Because of its flexibility and capacity to organize millions of assets, PI AF will play a critical role in asset-intensive industries, including the T&D market, to support initiatives such as AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) and the integration of real-time data with models such as CIM (Common Information Model).
"The combination of PI Notifications with PI AF comprises a significant step forward in providing customers with an enterprise-wide solution that enables users to easily integrate with new technology platforms, access PI System data in various contexts and analyze their data in new ways," said Dr. Patrick Kennedy, CEO and Founder of OSIsoft. "We are committed to our customers' data needs, especially as the industry has evolved from a data stream-centric approach to an asset-centric view of real-time information. This product release marks the next evolution of real-time data, helping customers to act on information actively -- and proactively."
The only comprehensive solution that enables customers to continually build value into the PI System infrastructure, PI Notifications and PI AF meet customers' organizational and alerting needs by storing all content on a centralized server and supporting templates for both asset structure and alarm conditions. In addition to alerting and alarming, the combined solution offers:
o Organization of all enterprise-wide data, including non-PI data in AF
o Reuse and template support of asset structure and notification rules;;
o Redundant calculation engine
o Extensible architecture on which to customize logic and rules
o Historical archiving of all alarms and message delivery for auditing
and analysis needs.
Availability;
I Notifications and PI AF are available immediately.
About OSIsoft;
OSIsoft (http://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.
Source: OSIsoft
CONTACT: Elizabeth Kollross,;
+1-650-480-4070,;
ekollross@eastwick.com, for OSIsoft
Web site: http://www.osisoft.com/
