Transpara in the News

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

Plant Engineering on Visual KPI and PI

• Embedding OSIsoft PI in our Visual KPI product will bring incredible power to users at any level in a plant hierarchy. March 2008 - Plant Engineering

Microsoft Channel 9 features Visual KPI

• Transpara worked hard with Microsoft over the last 6 months to revamp the User Experience for Visual KPI.  In the pilot episode of a new MSDN series, Microsoft and Transpara redesigned the user experience in “Visual KPI” software to provide a more streamlined interface which is both easier to use as well as being visually appealing. The challenge here was how to work within the Transpara customer requirements of being a web based interface designed to be viewed on a variety of mobile devices.
  February 2008 - Microsoft Channel 9

Transpara Visual KPI Nominated for Office Business Application of the Year

• The competition for Office Business Application of the Year for 2007 is heating up, and Transpara's Visual KPI is in the running. YOU can help by checking out the web site and providing an insightful comment or review of how your company uses Visual KPI. Click on the link above and help push Visual KPI to a win in 2007! The voting and page-visit tally ends on Jan. 31, 2008 so please visit the link now. You'll need to sign in with an IM account to provide a review or a rating.
  December 2007 - Microsoft OBA Central

Panel of thought leaders see pains, gains in manufacturing enterprise IT

• As 2007 comes to a close, Manufacturing Business Technology turned to some of those it knows best in the vendor community to get an idea of what may lie ahead in the ongoing convergence of manufacturing systems and information technology. .
  December 2007 - Manufacturing Business Technology

Someone’s Watching from Afar

• Monitoring equipment, components and processes from afar is developing into a substantial benefit for manufacturers…and suppliers. Sometimes employees and contractors need to see information wherever they are with whatever device they have at hand. Sometimes that old “making the rounds to collect information while carrying a clipboard” just doesn’t cut it any longer.
  November 2007 - Automation World

Emerging 40 Vendors: Recognizing innovation in the global manufacturing enterprise

• The Emerging 40 address challenges in all four areas that Manufacturing Business Technology covers: plant operations, enterprise, supply chain, and product engineering. The listing at right categorizes the solution providers in the same way, and brief descriptions of what's involved also are included.
  10 October 2007 - Manufacturing Business Technology

Your Assets at Your Fingertips: Managing Operations and Improving Productivity from Your Cell Phone

• Theres no question that handhelds - Smartphone, Blackberry, and the rest have become standard battle gear for executives and senior managers. But what about personnel in the field: the plant manager, technician or engineer?
  October 2007 - Energy Central

Data Access from Everywhere

• KeySpan's John Ragone was recently interviewed by Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert. "KeySpan could have created its own software solution, but it opted for Tranparas instead. We know how to produce electric power safely and efficiently. We are not webmasters or programmers. We wanted a vendor that understood our interfaces and could adapt to our changing and evolving needs. Transpara has proved up to the task, observes Ragone.
  2 April 2007 - Control Global

The Revolution is Already Happening

• Gary Mintchell (Editor in Chief of Automation World magazine) picked up on the progress Transpara is making in our effort to make the world a more decisive place using web service technology. In his words "I'm always a little suspicious of the term "revolution" because I've heard it so much in my life. But I think this is already happening--just not so much in automation. Look at the connected mobile phones. There's lots happening there. In automation, Michael Saucier started a little company called Transpara that take historian data base information and formats it for PDA and cell phone sized devices. Yesterday Invensys Process Systems announced that it will be a reseller."
  8 March 2007 - Automation World

Let Your Data Set You Free: Using KPIs to Manage Remote Assets

• Carbon emissions are on everyone's mind right now -- and rightly so. Governments globally are cracking down on emissions and starting to put regulations in place to minimize output, rewarding clean energy and penalizing offenders.
  28 February 2007 - Energy Central Network

Transpara Announces Visual KPI for 2007 Microsoft Office System, with Support for Excel Server and SharePoint Server

• Visual KPI's Composite KPI Engine Enables Customers to Leverage Existing Technology Investment for On-Demand, Operations Intelligence on any Handheld or Desktop Browser
  December 2006 - Electric Energy Online

The push is toward wireless, as mobile, handheld computing devices prove their worth in industrial maintenence applications.

• December 26, 2006 Mighty Handy by Wes Iversen, Managing Editor. The push is toward wireless, as mobile, handheld computing devices prove their worth in industrial maintenance applications. John Ragone, automation manager, office of electric generation, thinks that KeySpan's new mobility solution from Transpara for use by its maintenance personnel has the potential to produce major savings.
  26 December 2006 - Automation World

Manufacturing ISVs Begin Ascent on Microsoft's Vista

• Since Microsoft Corp. just unveiled the much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system, Ms. Neil interviewed top ISV's who are shipping Vista and Office 2007 ready products. "Our partners play a vital role in the early adoption, development, and delivery of Microsoft technologies," said Rob Bernard, general manager of Microsoft's Worldwide ISV Group, in a statement. "By working closely with partners like Transpara, we are helping to provide our mutual customers with a high-quality product, seamless technology integration, and improved user experiences."
  1 December 2006 - Managing Automation

Podcast: Interview with Julie Fraser of Industry Directions

• Julie Fraser, principal at market researcher Industry Directions Inc., talks with Automation Worlds Wes Iversen about use of wireless handheld devices in manufacturing applications. During the interview, Fraser discusses the use of KPIs, or key performance indicators, and the benefits of KPI delivery via mobile devices, using tools such as Visual KPI software from Transpara Corp.
  27 November 2006 - Automation World

Transpara: Visual KPI's for smart phones and Office 2007

• Cliff Reeve's blog at the Microsoft Startup Zone recognized Transpara today. Cliff is a visionary and thought leader with a business pedigree that anyone would envy. Check out Cliff's personal blog on Typepad here.
  15 November 2006 - Microsoft Startup Zone

Energizing the Enterprise

• Asset management will put the zip back in your plants! CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the industrys stampede toward asset management systems for productivity improvement.
  13 November 2006 - ControlGlobal.com

Mobile platforms informative or intrusive?

• Do mobile devices and access to corporate information hurt the quality of life for Information Workers? This soap box piece by Michael Saucier examines some of the issues and presents both sides of the case.
  1 November 2006 - Control Engineering

KeySpan Finds The Easy Road In Taking Data To Mobile Workers software

• Getting vital information to mobile workers is no easy task, but the job is a whole lot easier when all the technology fits together. That was behind the decision of KeySpan Corp., the largest electric generator in New York State, to use the latest version of Transpara Corp.'s Visual KPI to distribute performance metrics from generators, turbines and other equipment to engineers via advanced cellular phones. "It's about as simple as you can get," Ragone said. "It took us longer to get the purchasing in place than to launch the actual project." The return on investment was obvious when you consider that taking a turbine offline for repair could cost KeySpan hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, Ragone said. "This is insurance, essentially," he said of Visual KPI.
  2 October 2006 - Intelligent Enterprise

Control Engineering discusses Symbol partnership

• Businesses realize greater benefits if they do not have to worry about their technologies working together, says Michelle Crissey, vice president of U.S. and Americas International channels at Symbol. Transparas Visual KPI delivers critical decision support software to our enterprise mobility customers in the process and manufacturing markets.
  30 August 2006 - Control Engineering

InTech Executive Corner: Wireless applications aren't just for Starbucks warriors anymore

• They have evolved in such a way that they are now ideal for supporting real-time business intelligence in the demanding process industries. Read this Executive Corner treatise by Michael Saucier on why now is the time to move ahead with that distributed collaboration project you put on hold last year!
  20 June 2006 - InTech

Podcast with Michael Saucier

• In this week's featured Podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews founder and CEO of Transpara, Michael Saucier, on the company's Visual KPI software application that delivers rich scorecard data and trends to mobile devices.
  1 June 2006 - Control Global

OSIsoft San Francisco User Conference

• Transpara's booth was busy every hour of the Expo. During the course of the User Conference, Transpara gave personal demos to over 150 OSIsoft customers. Many of these customers put the link to the Visual KPI software on their personal PDAs, SmartPhones and Blackberries.
  1 May 2006 - OSIsoft San Francisco User Conference