Repost, with comments: New Whitepaper on Survey Data: Less Ugly, More Understandable

 http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2014/1/new-whitepaper-survey-data-less-ugly-more-understandable-27812

Wonderware Intelligence uses Tableau for dashboard & visualization for operational intelligence

It's been no secret that for over 4 years, Wonderware has been a close partner of Tableau Software, using its award-winning Business Intelligence tool for our own visualization and dashboarding of Wonderware Intelligence Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence software.  Using best-of-breed Tableau, we offer customers flexibility, market-leading performance, and deep domain experience for effectively building and displaying information-rich, intuitive charts and graphs that reflect the real-time industrial process.

Tableau just released a good white paper on making your data beautiful...I've included the link and believe it's worth your time to read, and learn from a leader.

Repost, with comments: Big Data Strategy: s+b’s Strategy of the Year

http://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Big-Data-Strategy-sbs-Strategy-of-the-Year

Big data has become part of the "triliogy" of new initiatives for businesses--along with the cloud and mobile, really transforming the way companies are doing business and interacting with systems, people and equipment.

This post from Strategy & Business discusses the value & initiatives that a company should consider for using and leveraging a big data strategy.

At Wonderware, we've supported manufacturing "big data" for many years, whether it's for real-time series process analysis (Historian, Historian Client), or for manufacturing intelligence (Wonderware Intelligence) where multiple databases can be accessed, the data related in context to one another, and then presented in a graphically rich dashboard.

The point is that depending upon a user's needs, these different "industrial big data" products can help them make more sense of the data that's within their plant or enterprise--providing relationships to events, allowing for better drill down and analysis.  If you have a data historian, and aren't using one of these analytical products, you may be missing important aspects of your process that you could easily improve, or gain better insight into.

Wonderware Intelligence: The Top 5 New Tableau Features

by Jim Frider, Product Marketing Manager, Invensys

If you analyze data to improve the performance of your facility then you need to learn more about the exciting new data visualization features available with Wonderware Intelligence. 

At its core, Wonderware Intelligence helps industrial companies better understand the subtleties of their processes and equipment so they can make better decisions.  It helps manufacturing; processing and infrastructure companies organize their many data stores into a coherent information model which then can be rendered into brilliant data displays and charts.  Wonderware has partnered with Tableau Software, a leader in business intelligence software, to offer the most compelling data analytics available to the industrial marketplace.    

Tableau Software has released version 8.1 of their leading data visualization software.  This new release contains dozens of enhanced features to improve your data analytics.  Invensys engineers have reviewed this new release, and here is our list of the top 5 new Tableau 8.1 features.

Repost: Retailers, CPGs Using Big Data Analytics to Outperform Others

http://www.progressivegrocer.com/top-stories/headlines/national-supermarket-chains/id39544/retailers-cpgs-using-big-data-analytics-to-outperform-others/?icid=homepage

In this story from Progressive Grocer, IBM partnered with Kantar Retail Global to uncover the effectivity of using Big Data for feeding analytics and decision making in supermarket supply chains.  It comes as no surprise that those using Big Data for feeding sales, marketing, IT were more productive and lead in their market standings.

As we've seen from a manufacturing perspective, Big Data can also improve operations performance.  Having a unified view of Key Performance Indicators, fed in real-time, allows management to be more responsive to unplanned events or changes.   That's where Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence fits in--think of it as Business Intelligence (BI) for industry.  Bringing a holistic view of the enterprise, providing actionable information, giving you the capability to become a high performance organization.  There are a host of EMI providers--Wonderware Intelligence notably is a leading brand.

The Mystery of Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence

Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence, or EMI, has been around for over 15 years.  It was created as a way to put more context and meaning around data that was created in oil and gas refining plants--information such as throughput, yields, bottlenecks, and quality.  The value of these reports, to the outside world, wasn't apparent, and even the users themselves referred to the application as "MES" (or, Manufacturing Execution Systems).  But it's not--it's different, it's special, and they are both needed:  MES to govern the transformation of raw materials through finished goods, and EMI to provide meaning and relationships, acting as a Decision Support System for the organization.

ArchestrA Workflow Training Now Available from Wonderware Midwest!

http://www.wonderwaremidwest.com/workflow

Have you been curious on what workflow can do for your operations?  How you might enable standardization in processes, activities, responses to alarm conditions?  We have the answer for you--ArchestrA Workflow Software. 

ArchestrA Workflow Software is "industrialized" Business Process Management software--meaning that it takes the foundations of BPM--business logic-driven processes--and applies them to industrial automation environments.  So interaction with plant process equipment, applications such as Wonderware MES, InTouch HMI, Avantis EAM, and Wonderware Intelligence EMI connectors are already in place.

Wonderware Midwest is hosting two training classes.  Check their website for more details, and to register.