Software offers role-based business analytics.
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Based on data extraction, aggregation, and visualization, Avantis.DSS provides decision-makers with key role-based maintenance and purchasing analytics via standard Web portal. Pre-configured to support set of generic KPIs, software allows users to monitor complete lifecycle of work, analyze schedule compliance and resource utilization, and monitor current activities or long-term trends in spending to meet purchasing requirements and vendor performance.
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New Avantis Asset Management Software from Invensys Delivers Role-Based Business Analytics
Avantis.DSS software enables decision-makers to personalize a Web portal to show the asset intelligence they need to support day-to-day business decisions
HOUSTON, TX (Invensys Process Systems Customer Conference) - October 4, 2005 - The Avantis unit of Invensys Process Systems today introduced new software that provides manufacturing and executive decision-makers with key role-based maintenance and purchasing analytics via a standard Web portal. The new software, Avantis.DSS, is a decision support solution that transforms transaction data into visible, meaningful and actionable business analytics based on the individual's specific role in the organization.
"Our recent customer forums reveal that business decision-makers want and need more knowledge, not more data. They want better access to the maintenance and operating data their assets are already generating, and they want the power to filter and manipulate it to display personal key performance indicators (KPIs). Avantis.DSS provides them an easy way to visualize their progress in achieving the indicators that measure their job success," said Neil Cooper, general manager of the Avantis unit of Invensys Process Systems.
Avantis.DSS software comes pre-configured to support a comprehensive set of generic KPIs based on best practices in maintenance and purchasing management. Users can, for example, visualize trends in quantity of work requests, work orders or backlog, make improvements, and monitor their success. With the pre-configured KPIs, users can monitor the complete lifecycle of work -- incoming work, work in planning, work in progress, and completed work. They can also analyze schedule compliance, resource utilization, and maintenance costs. Likewise, with the standard KPI package, users can monitor current activities or longer-term trends in spending to meet purchasing requirements and vendor performance.
The Avantis.DSS software has three primary components: data extraction, aggregation and visualization. The data extraction component is built exclusively on Microsoft technology, which includes Microsoft SQL Server Data Transformation Services for extracting source data from Avantis.PRO software, and transforming the data appropriately for application-specific analysis. The aggregation component aggregates data into cubes for easier manipulation. And, the visualization component uses Microsoft Office Web components to manipulate and display the KPIs on industry standard dashboards, including Microsoft Sharepoint, Wonderware Suite Voyager, and custom portals.
Avantis.DSS provides a key component in the Invensys Process Systems offering of the industry's most comprehensive solution for total enterprise asset performance management. It brings management easy-to-access tools that help view asset performance at all levels.
Avantis.DSS software is available immediately through the Avantis Early Adopter Program. For more information on Avantis.DSS, contact info@avantis.net or visit www.avantis.net
About Avantis
For more than 20 years, customers throughout the world have relied on Avantis enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions to improve resource productivity by driving down operating costs, minimizing the risk of unplanned downtime, and maximizing financial return on capital assets. Avantis is a unit of the Invensys Process Systems. For more information visit, www.avantis.net.
About Invensys Process Systems
Invensys Process Systems, a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions for the automation and optimization of industrial process plants. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions group, Invensys Process Systems includes 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 refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.
