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Visual business intelligence: Transpara's KPI solution certified for Windows Server 2008

• Transpara announced that its Visual KPI Web-based software is the first operations intelligence solution to earn Windows Server 2008 software certification. Windows Server 2008 software certification consists of approximately 100 test cases that independently confirm an application’s compliance with best practices for compatibility, security, reliability and availability on the new platform, while ensuring the software performs in a 64-bit environment.- Manufacturing Business Technology, 3/31/2008

Transpara Recognized in START-IT Top 125 Manufacturing Technology Providers for 2008

• START-IT magazine announced the companies named on the START-IT 125 for 2008. The START-IT 125 is a directory of the most influential technology providers in the manufacturing space. Companies are selected by the editors of START-IT and its editorial advisory board. March 14, 2008. The 2008 START-IT 125 is a list of the most influential manufacturing technology providers as determined by the editors of START-IT magazine and editorial advisors. It is designed to provide a snapshot of the industrial market and the companies with the greatest impact on its direction. 

Transpara, OSIsoft partner to deliver time series capabilities in Visual KPI

• Transpara Corporation has formed an OEM relationship with OSIsoft, which delivers the PI System data historian. Transpara’s Visual KPI, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser, will be embed the PI System.  April 1, 2008 -  Control Engineering

Transpara, OSIsoft announce OEM relationship

• Visual KPI embeds the PI system to provide "out of the box" historical analysis and trending capabilities for KPI data. March 2008 - WaterWorld Magazine

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Recent Announcements

• Transpara Corporation, a leading provider of operations intelligence software, today announced a Business Development relationship with the Bridge Incubation Group. The only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser, Visual KPI will now be marketed throughout EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).With the ability to determine trends over time – in addition to instantaneous snapshots of role-based data – decision makers benefit from comprehensive, complex and rich analysis of business-critical data. The agreement involves the development of localized market strategies, set-up and management of sales channels and various business development and marketing activities.
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• Transpara Corporation is one of an elite group of sponsors for the2008 Next Generation Utility Summit (opens in new window), hosting such dignitaries as Constellation CTO Jeff Johnson, Sempra Enterprise Architect Terry Mohn, PG&E CIO Patricia Lawicki, Con Edison VP of Transmission John McAvoy, Xcel Energy VP & CIO Michael Carlson and over 60 other leading Utility top executives. The Boulders Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, 15-17 September 2008.

• Transpara today announced that its Visual KPI web-based software is the first operations intelligence solution to earn Windows Server 2008 software certification. Visual KPI is the only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that provides on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser. By delivering role-based, real-time operating data in context, Visual KPI enables timely, informed decision making by users in the process manufacturing, utilities and pharmaceutical industries.
• Read:Visual KPI Featured in Windows Server 2008 Launch Events Worldwide  opens in new window

• Transpara Corporation, a leading provider of operations intelligence software, today announced an OEM relationship with OSIsoft, which delivers the PI System, the industry standard in data historians. The only composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software that delivers on-demand operations data from multiple data sources to any desktop or mobile browser, Visual KPI will now embed the PI System. The OEM agreement enables customers to trend KPI status and calculations by adding time series capabilities even if their back-end data source is not time series-based. With the ability to determine trends over time – in addition to instantaneous snapshots of role-based data – decision makers benefit from comprehensive, complex and rich analysis of business-critical data.
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Analyst Research

Manufacturing IQ: Taking Manufacturing Intelligence to the Enterprise

• Aberdeen research shows that top pressure driving manufacturers towards Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) initiatives is to increase productivity without additional capital investments. This benchmark report shows Best-in-Class companies more than two times as likely as other companies to have implemented EMI to address this key market pressure and achieve efficiencies within their factories and across the supply chain. Best-in-class enterprises that implement EMI utilize it across the supply chain network with real-time linkages to customers for order pegging and real-time visibility.

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Julie Fraser on KPIs

• "What were talking about is manufacturers survival," said Julie Fraser, Principal of Industry Directions, Inc. "If operations and finance aren't on the same page at the same time, you have a company at cross-purposes. And most manufacturers cant afford to be in that position today." from "Metrics That Matter"

  • Only 3% of study respondents report very effective links between operations KPIs and business metrics; this means that most companies management does not have views that accurately represent progress and plant contribution.
  • One in three respondents plan to buy plant dashboards in the next 12 months
  • Respondents using plant dashboards are over twice as likely to have improved significantly in cash-to-cash cycle times and total inventory on hand.

  Julie is right, you can use Transpara's Visual KPI to ensure that your Finance and Operations people are in synch 24/7.

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Aberdeen Performance Management Study

• "Arming organizations with better information, Transparas solution seeks to enhance corporate transparency and to facilitate collaboration in a distributed worldasserting that better transparency means better business."

  "The demand for timely visibility to operational data is real and technology exists today which addresses this need. Given the significant under-utilization of real-time performance monitoring that this study reveals, manufacturers should examine emerging solutions such as Visual KPI to gain a better understanding of their application and the potential business benefits that can be derived from providing business decision makers with data needed to measure performance against strategic and operational goals."

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Transpara named Cool Vendor for 2007 by Gartner

• Manufacturers must look beyond traditional large enterprise systems vendors for technology and applications that can provide competitive advantage. Manufacturers that are striving to react in real time to the dynamics of their business need to invest in tools that make key performance indicators available to any user, regardless of location. Obtain a copy of the reportHERE  opens in new window.

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