CHICAGO — June 28, 2022 — Uptake, a leader in industrial intelligence, announced today that it has been named a finalist for the 2022 Microsoft Energy & Sustainability Partner of the Year Award. Microsoft selected the company among a global field of top partners for demonstrating excellence in the development and implementation of customer solutions. Uptake Fusion was recognized for its ability to unlock industrial data by moving and normalizing enterprise datastreams in Microsoft Azure for real-time decisions.
We’re honored to be recognized as a finalist for this award. Uptake’s strategic relationship with Microsoft is a testament to the value of enabling energy companies to generate business value and enterprise reporting from their data, … We look forward to continuing to advance digital transformation and sustainability initiatives with the Microsoft tools our customers are using each day.
— Kayne Grau, CEO, Uptake
Uptake Fusion enables asset-intensive operations, including energy and utilities, to prepare data in the cloud for analytics. By connecting to underlying operational technology (OT) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and then integrating with datasets like SAP, IBM, and Oracle, Uptake Fusion prepares contextualized industrial data for authorized first- and third-party consumers.
Energy companies like Chevron and Capital Power are using Uptake Fusion to automate the integration of data in their Microsoft Azure environment. Once data is available in their own or Uptake’s Azure cloud, data consumers can unlock real-time visibility and decision support. Industrial intelligence use cases like AI/ML, digital twins, connected worker applications, and sustainability reporting are possible at scale, including through Microsoft tools like Power BI, Uptake Radar, and preferred third-party applications.
I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, … These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees, and I’m continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact on their customers.
— Nick Parker, Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions, Microsoft
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognizes Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide.
Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually before the company’s global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year.
The complete list of categories, winners, and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards can be found at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire/awards.
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Uptake provides industrial intelligence software-as-a-service (SaaS), translating data into smarter operations. Driven by unified data management and industrial data science, Uptake enables and delivers actionable insights that predict asset failure, advance ESG initiatives, mitigate catastrophic risk, optimize maintenance strategy, and protect operator safety. With 48 patents and recognition by Gartner, Verdantix, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and Forbes, Uptake is based in Chicago, with an office in Mississauga, Ontario, and has a presence around the world.
Fusion aligns perfectly with our goals. We needed a solution that was easy to install, had no infrastructure overhead, and liberated data for all.
Martin Blades
Program Leader, Enerplus
CHICAGO — June 14, 2022 — Uptake, a leader in industrial intelligence, announced today that it has completed its SOC 2 Type II audit, performed by KirkpatrickPrice. SOC 2 compliance demonstrates that software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have the necessary controls and processes in place to protect data processed on their systems and is a critical criterion for evaluating the security of software vendors.
The safety and cyber-security of industrial data and systems are critical for our customers and partners, and they’re core to our products and services, … We’re committed to ensuring data entrusted to Uptake is secure and available for all of our customers’ objectives, including digital transformation and sustainability initiatives.
— Linda Bartman, President, Uptake
A SOC 2 audit provides an independent, third-party validation that a service organization’s information security practices meet industry standards stipulated by the AICPA. During the audit, a service organization’s non-financial reporting controls, including security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy, are tested. The SOC 2 report delivered by KirkpatrickPrice verifies the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of Uptake’s controls to meet the standards for these criteria.
The SOC 2 audit is based on the Trust Services Criteria, … Uptake delivers trust-based services to their clients, and by communicating the results of this audit, their clients can be assured of their reliance on Uptake’s controls.
— Joseph Kirkpatrick, President, KirkpatrickPrice
Uptake provides industrial intelligence software-as-a-service (SaaS), translating data into smarter operations. Driven by unified data management and industrial data science, Uptake enables and delivers actionable insights that predict asset failure, advance ESG initiatives, mitigate catastrophic risk, optimize maintenance strategy, and protect operator safety. With 48 patents and recognition by Gartner, Verdantix, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and Forbes, Uptake is based in Chicago, with an office in Mississauga, Ontario, and has a presence around the world.
CHICAGO – MARCH 17, 2022 – Uptake, a leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service (SaaS), is pleased to share that Microsoft has named Chief Data Officer Dr. Dave Shook as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP). The MVP award recognizes his contributions to the Microsoft Azure technical community.
The Microsoft MVP award is an incredible recognition of Dave’s innovation in industrial data analytics and to the value of industrial intelligence enabled by Microsoft Azure, … I would like to congratulate Dave on this honor and his technical leadership in the field. His work to make industrial data available in the cloud for enterprise analytics is making a significant impact on digital transformation and sustainability.
— Kayne Grau, Chief Executive Officer, Uptake
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) honors technology leaders who share their knowledge and passion with their community over the previous year. MVPs make up a global community of technical experts and community leaders around the world who readily share their deep expertise in Microsoft products and services to help solve real-world problems. Above all, the recognition distinguishes MVPs for their willingness to help out peers in the industry in their work together across Microsoft platforms, products, and solutions.
For more information on Microsoft MVPs, visit: mvp.microsoft.com/en-us
Uptake provides industrial intelligence software-as-a-service, translating data into smarter operations. Driven by unified data management and industrial data science, Uptake enables and delivers actionable insights that predict asset failure, advance ESG initiatives, mitigate catastrophic risk, optimize maintenance, and protect operator safety. With 47 patents and recognition by Gartner, Verdantix, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and Forbes, Uptake is based in Chicago, with an office in Mississauga, Ontario, and has a presence around the world.
CHICAGO – March 1, 2022 – Uptake, a leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service (SaaS), announced today that Uptake Fusion will support Microsoft Azure Data Explorer. Uptake Fusion, which automates the extraction of industrial data from historians, IoT sensors, and operational technology (OT) systems for storage and curation in Microsoft Azure, accelerates the knowledge transfer from the minds of site engineers to the enterprise where corporate engineers, data scientists, and leaders can rapidly make decisions. Uptake Fusion greatly reduces data wrangling and data science feature engineering by harnessing the events, alarms, work order, and asset management data necessary to unlock target use cases in industrial intelligence.
Azure Data Explorer expands the range of data available to strengthen sustainability initiatives, optimize costs, manage risks, and increase revenue, … With the addition of Azure Data Explorer to Uptake Fusion, asset-intensive industries improve their time to value for data lakes, data estates, digital twins, asset monitoring, and automated reporting.
— Dr. Dave Shook, Chief Data Officer, Uptake
Uptake Fusion provides secure and cost-effective access to industrial data so that the enterprise can make faster, smarter operational decisions. By connecting to underlying operational technology (OT) systems and contextualizing OT data with enterprise datasets like SAP, IBM, and Oracle, Uptake Fusion makes industrial data available for advanced analytics use cases. Uptake Fusion also supports out-of-the-box integration with Uptake’s Advanced Industrial Analytics and AI-powered Asset Performance Management (APM) products.
Azure Data Explorer makes enterprise-scale data readily available in low latency for real-time retrieval, analysis, and visualization, … Uptake Fusion’s support of Azure Data Explorer extends this capability for asset-intensive companies with industry expertise and context, greatly reducing the need for data wrangling and feature engineering time.”
— Uri Barash, Principal Group Program Manager for Azure Data Explorer, Microsoft
Uptake Fusion deploys to the enterprise Azure cloud environment or is hosted via Uptake’s Azure instance. It takes advantage of open data formats to provide approved internal and third-party consumers with curated data sets that provide value to customers. In addition, open APIs to tools including Microsoft Power BI, PowerApps, and Azure Synapse facilitate self-service in dashboards, reporting, and monitoring.
The support of Azure Data Explorer by Uptake Fusion comes as Uptake recently announced its partnership with Cognizant to enable unified data management in the energy and utility industries. Uptake Fusion is also available via the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Oren, the B2B marketplace for digital mining products.
Uptake provides industrial intelligence software-as-a-service, translating data into smarter operations for heavy industries. Uptake gives all departments –– maintenance, reliability, operations, financial teams – a single, shared, and contextualized view of every operational asset and interaction that affects performance. Driven by data science and cloud computing, Uptake delivers actionable insights that predict and prevent asset failure, increase compliance with ESG initiatives, mitigate catastrophic risk, optimize maintenance strategy, reduce repair costs, enhance productivity, and improve operator safety. With 40+ patents and recognition by Gartner, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and Forbes, Uptake is based in Chicago, with an office in Mississauga, Ontario, and has a presence around the world.
One of the key differentiators that sold us on Fusion was that the platform was built with Microsoft Azure cloud technology which allowed us to leverage our existing Azure infrastructure without increasing costs or compromising performance quality. The solution allowed us to store large amounts of data and integrated easily with our current technology footprint. Our employees are able to access data easily which has helped improve its utilization for decision making.
Manish Neupane
Director, Applications & Business Intelligence
Capital Power
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published under our former name, Uptake, and has been updated to reflect our current company identity.
June 2, 2021 — Fusion Data Hub announced today the availability of Fusion Cloud Datastore for Ignition by Inductive Automation. Operators in process-intensive industries like chemicals, oil and gas, renewables, manufacturing, and mining can purchase Fusion and install it directly into their enterprise tenant in Azure. Users are able to transfer their OT data in Ignition to Azure for greater enterprise access and usability.
Better business decisions that optimize costs, mitigate risks, and enhance revenue assurance all begin with the elevation of high-fidelity operational data to the cloud. With Uptake Fusion, companies can now cost-effectively scale the development of context-rich advanced applications across their organization. That way, individual decision-makers have the frontline intelligence they need, whether that is operational monitoring, reporting, or planning.
Dr. Dave Shook, Chief Data Officer, Fusion Data Hub
Once Ignition data is within the enterprise tenant, internal and third-party consumers have access to the data with an open format for visualization, analytics, and orchestration, allowing them to use Microsoft Power BI, PowerApps, and Synapse or their preferred tools to derive data insights.
In addition, Fusion reduces the number of connections between data collection systems like Ignition and the SaaS platforms operators already have in place, protecting critical underlying plant systems from cyber-threats. The consolidation of high volumes of data in Azure permits SCADA systems and historians to perform as originally intended for plant staff, securely scaling the demand for data by different internal and SaaS consumers.
The out-of-the-box collection and cross-platform compatibility that Ignition users know and leverage on a day-to-day basis are extended to the cloud by Uptake Fusion. This integration empowers Ignition users with the data-centric, cost-effective approach to industrial intelligence for rapid use across their organizations.
Don Pearson, Chief Strategy Officer, Inductive Automation.
This announcement comes as Fusion recently announced the availability of Fusion for OSISoft PI users.
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CHICAGO — May 18, 2021 — Uptake, the leader in Industrial AI and Analytics, announced today the availability of Fusion Cloud Datastore for OSIsoft PI on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use in Azure. In just three minutes, operators in process-intensive industries like chemicals, oil and gas, renewables, manufacturing, and mining can purchase Uptake Fusion from the Marketplace and install it directly into their enterprise tenant in Azure. Users are able to transfer all of their OSIsoft PI data — historical, instantaneous, and metadata — into the cloud for greater enterprise access and advanced analytics.
For simply accessing their own data, users of on-premise historians incur a cost per tag. We’re able to solve that problem and empower operators to bypass the process of pre-modeling data, scaling the extraction of operational data to the cloud for valuable use cases like enterprise reporting, monitoring, and planning… Once OSIsoft PI data is liberated by Uptake Fusion, our customers have unfettered access to their own data in Azure. We’re propelling data scientists, engineers, and executives with the intelligence they need to make informed business decisions.
— Dr. Dave Shook, Chief Data Officer, Uptake
usion establishes a connector with OSIsoft PI — and any SCADA or control system, historian, or IIoT sensor — to extract asset-produced data for long-term storage in Azure. All OSIsoft PI data is organized in Uptake Fusion exactly as it is in the PI Asset Framework (PI-AF), enabling users to aggregate and correlate all of their operational information without additional PI tags to derive further insights. An offline datastore secures the stream against loss, with built-in recovery features.
In addition, Uptake Fusion reduces the number of connections between data collection systems and the SaaS platforms operators already have in place, protecting critical underlying plant systems from cyber-threats. The consolidation of high volumes of data in Azure permits SCADA systems and historians to perform as originally intended for plant staff, securely scaling the demand for data by different internal and SaaS consumers.
Fusion also prepares data for the specific consumption requirements of different stakeholders in the enterprise Azure tenant. It provides data analysts and engineers with an open format for visualization, analytics, and orchestration, allowing them to use their preferred tools to derive data insights. Integrated with Microsoft Power BI, PowerApps, and Azure Time Series Insights, Uptake Fusion equips industrial companies with automated reporting for multiple high-value purposes.
The Fusion solution also expedites the deployment of advanced applications such as intelligent events, process optimization, forecasting, and AI/ML predictive analytics. One company — a top five super-major — is using Fusion to advance its global digital transformation initiative across renewables, upstream, midstream, and downstream. By extracting data from OSIsoft PI to Uptake Fusion, the company has standardized best practices for reporting, ML deployment, and integrated data from key systems for the development of digital twins
This announcement follows Uptake recently announcing its partnership with Wipro, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process company, to provide advanced analytics for the heavy processing and energy industries. Uptake also recently acquired ShookIOT, a leader in cloud-native data integration and integrity, strengthening its capabilities to accelerate digital transformation for asset-intensive companies.
Uptake is the intelligence system for industrial assets. With the power of data acquisition and artificial intelligence, Uptake gives all departments — maintenance, reliability, and operations teams — a single, shared, and contextualized view of every asset in an operation. Driven by powerful data science models and cloud computing, our products deliver insights to customers that help them predict and prevent asset failure, mitigate risk, optimize maintenance strategy and asset performance, reduce costs, assure productivity, and enhance safety. With 30+ patents and recognized for leadership in Industrial AI by Gartner, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and Forbes, Uptake is headquartered in Chicago with presence in Canada, South America, Europe, India, and Australia.
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