Marking Two Decades of Providing Industrial Automation Software Solutions HOUSTON, TX / ISA ‘06 – October 19, 2006 – ICONICS is celebrating 20 years of providing Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems. ICONICS’ corporate headquarters is located in Foxborough, MA, USA, near Boston. The company has offices throughout the USA and in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy and Germany, with over 40 percent of its sales coming from its international operations. ICONICS also has a joint software development and sales office in the Czech Republic.
Over 80 percent of ICONICS’ revenue comes from six key industries: oil, gas and petrochemical; utilities; food and pharmaceutical; building controls; machine builders; and automotive. ICONICS has evolved with the markets it serves. The company has kept pace with, and taken advantage of, the latest technologies. Solutions have grown from DOS to Windows-compatibility, from 16 bit to 32 bit, and from being single PC-based to being Web-enabled. ICONICS has recently complemented its HMI/SCADA expertise by helping to usher in the Business Visualization/Manufacturing Intelligence Age.
With its GENESIS32 and BizViz suites, ICONICS helps customers visualize their enterprise from the shop floor to the top floor. ICONICS also recently marked this milestone during its 2006 Worldwide Customer Summit in Boston, MA. The event brought together over 350 participants from around the world. ICONICS customers and partners were able to share ideas during multiple, content-rich sessions. Topics ranged from capitalizing on real-time data, to portals and digital dashboards to a look ahead with GENESIS64 and Microsoft Windows Vista.
“ICONICS is ready for the future and the next wave in technology, including 64-bit computing and integration with Microsoft’s new Vista operating system and Office 12," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "I am looking forward to exciting product innovations and continued growth and success.” ICONICS will continue to help customers benefit from emerging technologies such as Virtual Earth, smarter mobile communications, rapid secure credential authentication, hardware-accelerated video, OPC UA and Web services. “ICONICS has solidified a reputation as a lean, agile, innovative solutions partner for Microsoft platforms,” said Tim Donaldson, Director of Marketing at ICONICS.
“Supporting the enterprise’s information and visualization requirements goes above and beyond HMI software, places new demands on manufacturing and typically requires the coordination of disparate sources and platforms,” said Craig Resnick, research director at ARC Advisory Group. “The combination of ICONICS’ installed base, experience on the plant floor, market share, commitment to OPC and Microsoft technologies and the continued growth of both the HMI software and manufacturing intelligence markets bodes well for the future prospects of both its GENESIS32 and BizViz suites as well as ICONICS’ ability to satisfy manufacturers’ ever-growing information, interoperability and visualization requirements.”
ICONICS has been providing award-winning, industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 20 years and has successfully deployed more than 200,000 solutions worldwide. ICONICS, a Microsoft Gold Partner, was recently awarded as a Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist in the ISV/Software Solutions category.
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 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 200,000 product installations worldwide.