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Houston, TX - ISA ‘07 — October 2, 2007 — BizViz Productivity Analytics empowers decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with real-time and accurate information to help them drive global operational efficiency and strengthen their competitive market advantage. Users are able to gain insight into operations through real-time data aggregation and connectivity to multiple data sources, including OPC, SNMP and BACnet. BizViz Productivity Analytics helps to establish manufacturing context with KPIs and other business metrics, delivering manufacturing intelligence to an entire organization. “BizViz Productivity Analytics helps to measure and monitor assets in real-time,” said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS, “as well as to reduce unplanned downtime, increase production efficiency and help uncover new process improvement opportunities. Used in conjunction with the BizViz business visualization/manufacturing intelligence suite, ICONICS solutions help organizations turn data into information between ‘shop floor and top floor.’” Innovative features include customizable, role based views; configurable KPIs for Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma initiatives; automated reporting with advanced analytic functions; secure collaboration with single sign-on for all modules; and preconfigured templates for many manufacturing business processes. BizViz Productivity Analytics also features information delivery to mobile devices, supporting multiple protocols; connectivity to data sources including SQL, SAP, SNMP, Oracle, ODBC, OLEDB and more; advanced alarm analytics based on EEMUA and OSHA industry standards; a Web services- and .NET-centric architecture; and a powerful, intuitive, Web-based user interface. “The productivity aspect of this solution is what makes it really exciting,” said Melissa Topp, Product Marketing Manager at ICONICS. "Managers and supervisors can now drill down to uncover, and correct, inefficiencies at every level across the enterprise because they have visibility into which particular assets affect their bottom line the most." “Fact-based analysis drives consensus and improvement, which is impossible without the real-time visibility of both enterprise systems and the plant floor”, said Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group. “By enabling real-time metric and key performance indicator visibility between the plant floor and the enterprise, tools such as BizViz Productivity Analytics ensure that individuals who are empowered to make decisions and have a role in reducing costs, maximizing benefits, and minimizing risks of key processes have the resources needed to make critical business decisions in areas such as project scope management, capital spending prioritization, process validation, governance and exception management.” ICONICS Background Information ICONICS has been providing award-winning industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 20 years and has successfully deployed more than 225,000 solutions worldwide. ICONICS solutions meet diverse customer needs in a variety of industries including Automotive, Building Management, Food & Beverage, Oil/Gas/Petrochemical, Machine Builders, Pharmaceutical/Biotech, Security, Water/Wastewater, Utilities, Government Infrastructures and more. 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™ Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64. Pocket GENESIS for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core framework. BizViz 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 logging, 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. |
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