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| ICONICS Releases PortalWorX V - Visualization Solution of Manufacturing Intelligence Software Suite |
 Create Manufacturing Intelligence Portals and Digital Dashboards Houston, TX, ISA ‘04 – October 5, 2004 — ICONICS, a leader in Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA and Manufacturing Intelligence Visualization software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, today announced the release of PortalWorX™ Version 8. PortalWorX is the Visualization solution in the ICONICS Manufacturing Intelligence software suite, BizViz™. PortalWorX allows users to easily create and manage custom manufacturing and business portals that provide optimization of essential key performance indicators (KPI). "PortalWorX is the next generation in visualization software for industrial automation, and is a key component for our BizViz suite of Manufacturing Intelligence software," states Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "We have assembled the most comprehensive set of Microsoft .NET-based Web parts into a firewall-friendly application that is easy to configure and manage." PortalWorX provides everything customers need to create a manufacturing or business portal for real-time, historical plant and business information using Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003. “ICONICS recognizes a customer need for technologies that improve communication and collaboration across the manufacturing enterprise and therefore continues to provide innovative, Microsoft-based applications to the manufacturing industry,” said Don Richardson, director, Manufacturing Industry Unit at Microsoft. “PortalWorX, based on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, is another example of ICONICS’ dedication to providing robust solutions that address mission-critical challenges faced by manufacturers.” PortalWorX helps customers by enabling them to integrate information coming from a variety of applications. Starting with graphics, trends, and alarms coming from ICONICS applications, users can add in reports supplied by reporting Web parts and access plant and enterprise databases through data bridging. Moreover, users have full integration with their enterprise and plant applications in a single view. Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group, states, "The next generation of HMI software affords the users an all encompassing portal into the minutest details of the manufacturing process. Also, Many manufacturers continue to seek solutions built on the latest Microsoft technologies. PortalWorX offers the industrial automation marketplace a tool to build visualization solutions that allow users to leverage these new technologies, such as Microsoft .NET and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003." ICONICS has been providing award-winning, industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 18 years, and has successfully deployed more than 125,000 solutions worldwide. For more information, please contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600 or info@iconics.com, or visit the ICONICS Web site at www.iconics.com. About ICONICS 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, 95, 98, Millennium, and 2000, and Windows NT®. 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™, and runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. 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 50 countries, and has more than 125,000 product installations worldwide. For more information contact ICONICS at (508) 543-8600, or visit us online at www.iconics.com. |