Enterprise Integration​

Service Offerings

As an OSIsoft® PI System™ Integrator Partner, our capabilities extend from assisting with the initial justification and business case to overseeing all relevant technical activities (e.g., system architecture, detailed design, and deployment) to providing guidance on change management, process optimization, and user training – all based on years of experience and lessons learned in the deployment and utilization of the OSIsoft® PI System™ at numerous major North American utilities.

For new deployments, we can:

Assist in selecting the optimal PI licensing option:

• Pay-per-Tag versus Enterprise.
• Consider additional data sources (e.g., AMI or synchrophasor data).

Assist with the design and deployment of PI-specific architectures:

• PI Collectives.
• SAN vs. NAS.
• VM vs. standalone servers.
• Storage sizing.

Assist with the definition and creation of the most suitable business processes utilizing industry best practices:

• Compression vs. non-compression.
• Archive data duration.

Archive off-site backup requirements.

For existing deployments we can:

Optimize:

• Tag naming conventions.
• Data cleanup.
• Asset framework design to improve user’s data accessibility.

Develop:

• Data visualizations.
• Data analytics.
• Event frame processes.

For both new and existing deployments, we can:

• Develop and deploy tools to access data from various utility sources.
• Develop and deploy tools to automatically create asset framework hierarchies tied to existing or new archived tags using other sources of model information (e.g., Maximo, SAP, EMS Models, etc.).
• Document and organize existing user-built applications in the organization for maintainability.