Software provides manufacturing intelligence.
Press Release Summary:
With BizViz(TM) v9.13 Manufacturing Intelligence/Business Visualization Suite, users gain insight into operations through real-time data aggregation and connectivity to multiple data sources. EarthWorX(TM) Web Part, based on Microsoft Virtual Earth(TM) technology, geographically contextualizes enterprise information and key performance indicators, while BridgeWorX(TM) blocks allow users to import data from text, CSV, or XML files into any supported data sources.
Original Press Release:
ICONICS Releases Upgrade for BizViz V9 Customers
BizViz V9.13 Provides Over 250 Features, Including New Productivity Analytics
FOXBOROUGH, MA - January 14, 2009 - Today, ICONICS, a 2008 Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of the Year and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows® operating systems, announced the release of BizViz(TM) V9.13
BizViz V9.13 Manufacturing Intelligence/Business Visualization Suite empowers decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with real-time and accurate information to help drive global efficiency and strengthen competitive market advantage. The entire BizViz suite helps organizations capitalize on shared information between 'shop floor and top floor'. BizViz V9.13 adds over 250 new and exciting features, including new Productivity Analytics(TM).
Productivity Analytics helps to measure and monitor assets in real time, as well as reduce unplanned downtime, increase production efficiency and uncover new process improvement opportunities. Users are able to gain insight into operations through real-time data aggregation and connectivity to multiple data sources, presented in an intuitive and intelligent manner.
BizViz V9.13 features a new EarthWorX(TM) Web Part, based on Microsoft Virtual Earth(TM) technology, for geographically contextualizing enterprise information and key performance indicators (KPIs). The ReportWorX(TM) Layout Manager has been updated for improved reliability and even more flexibility. New BridgeWorX(TM) blocks allow users to import data from text, CSV or XML files into any supported data sources including SQL Server®, Oracle, MS Access(TM), SAP, MySQL, Excel®, OPC and Web services. These blocks also allow users to read from a TrendWorX(TM)32 Historical Database and transform it into a standard relational database format, as well as append data to TrendWorX32 Historical Databases from other database sources. BizViz V9.13 also now supports Microsoft Windows SharePoint® Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 in PortalWorX(TM).
"BizViz has consistently evolved to best meet the needs of our customers today," said Melissa Topp, Product Marketing Manager at ICONICS. "With the addition of analysis capabilities such as those in Productivity Analytics and Alarm Analytics and feature upgrades such as those found in Version 9.13, BizViz continues to be on the cutting edge of manufacturing intelligence and business visualization technology."
"BizViz has been updated along with ICONICS' GENESIS32(TM) Web-enabled, OPC-integrated HMI/SCADA suite," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "Each software suite complements the other, providing a complete package of visualization, control, analysis and reporting, meeting customer needs at each stage of business process cycles, from the shop floor to the top floor."
ICONICS solutions are widely recognized in the industrial automation software marketplace. Used in a wide variety of applications worldwide (including Automotive, Building Management, Food & Beverage, Oil/Gas/Petrochemical, Machine Builders, Pharmaceutical/Biotech, Security, Water/Wastewater, Utilities, Government Infrastructures and more), ICONICS' GENESIS64, GENESIS32 and BizViz products are recognized for their graphical capabilities and seamless integration with Microsoft operating systems and applications, bridging information from "the shop floor to the top floor." ICONICS has provided award-winning industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 22 years, successfully deploying more than 225,000 solutions worldwide.
ICONICS Background Information
Founded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrial automation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components and products, GENESIS32(TM) Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64. Pocket GENESIS(TM) for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core(TM) framework. BizViz(TM) is a suite of manufacturing and business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing and corporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NET technology and Microsoft SharePoint Services.. ICONICS also offers a complete set of Plug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX® Controls, OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server®-based data loggi ng, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner represented in over 60 countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.
© 2008 ICONICS, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. GENESIS64, GENESIS32, Pocket GENESIS, BizViz and their respective modules, OPC-To-The-Core, and Visualize Your Enterprise are trademarks of ICONICS Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
