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.
CHICAGO — October 5, 2021 — Uptake, the leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service, announced today the appointment of its President, Kayne Grau, to the role of Chief Executive Officer along with his election to its Board of Directors. Founder Brad Keywell will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Board. Grau’s expanded leadership role will focus on fortifying Uptake’s unique industrial intelligence while enhancing the ease of deployment and speed to value of Uptake’s products. Keywell will remain active in Uptake’s growth, continuing to establish and expand strategic relationships with customers, partners, and industry.
I could not be more excited to pass the torch to Kayne as Uptake embarks on our next phase of expansion and growth, … Kayne’s strong leadership as our President, his commitment to the excellence of Uptake’s industrial intelligence products, and his passion for our people and our customers have been integral to our growth and helped to position us for future success. Kayne brings both strategic vision and deep operational expertise to the CEO role, and I have the utmost confidence in him and our entire executive leadership team going forward.
— Brad Keywell, Executive Chairman, Uptake
Since Uptake appointed Grau as President last September, the company has experienced significant customer growth. In February 2021, Uptake acquired ShookIOT, deepening its global footprint in the chemical, oil, gas, and process industries through cloud-native operational technology (OT) data management. With deployments in 20 countries, Uptake recently expanded its relationship with the U.S. Beverage and Frito-Lay fleets of PepsiCo. Uptake’s products are also now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and have simple integration plug-ins to legacy systems, including IBM Maximo, SAP, Infor EAM, and Oracle.
Uptake’s mission – framed by industrial intelligence delivered through proprietary data and easy-to-deploy, simple-to-use products – has galvanized industrial operators to harness the immense value within their data, … Today, Uptake is unique in its ability to transform messy and confusing industrial data into actionable insight. I am honored that Brad has entrusted me as CEO, and our entire team is focused on growth that builds on our momentum.
— Kayne Grau, CEO, Uptake
Prior to Uptake, Grau held various executive roles at KAR Global (NYSE:KAR). He led the creation of its data analytics business unit and data products and services, extending its presence across physical, online, and digital auction marketplaces for used cars. Grau was previously the CEO at DRIVIN, a company he co-founded with Brad Keywell, until its acquisition by KAR in 2017. Before then, he served in various management roles at Music Dealers, Cars.com, Allstate, and Apartments.com, where he was CTO at the time of its sale to the CoStar Group in 2014 for $585 million.
Looking toward the future of industrial analytics, Grau added: “Outcome-oriented insights from Uptake help companies in Chicago, across the U.S., and around the world optimize the investments they have already made. Our products are delivering verified results in ESG initiatives, helping operators calibrate CapEx and reduce OpEx, and creating new sources of visibility to enable greater reliability and productivity. Uptake prides itself on being a seamless partner to industries, accelerating digital transformation, and enabling increased sustainability while mitigating risk.”
Uptake is the industrial intelligence system, providing actionable insight for operators across a variety of industries. Uptake gives all departments — maintenance, reliability, operations, and financial teams — a single, shared, and contextualized view of every operational asset and interaction that affects performance. Driven by powerful data science models and cloud computing, Uptake’s products deliver 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 ensure operator safety. With 40+ patents and recognized for leadership in Industrial AI by Gartner, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and Forbes, Uptake is headquartered in Chicago with a presence in Canada, South America, Europe, India, and Australia.
CHICAGO — June 2, 2021 — Uptake, the leader in Industrial AI and Analytics, announced today the availability of Uptake Fusion Cloud Datastore for Ignition by Inductive Automation on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. 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. At a minimum of 20,000 events per second throughput, 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, Vice President Technology, Uptake
Uptake Fusion establishes a connector with Ignition — and any SCADA or control system, historian, or IIoT sensor. Then organizing that time-series, sensor, and metadata, and retaining co-existing data models, Uptake Fusion transports OT data to Azure for long-term storage. Once in 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 Azure Time Series Insights or their preferred tools to derive data 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 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.
Uptake Fusion also expedites the deployment of applications such as intelligent events, process optimization, forecasting, and AI/ML predictive analytics, including through Uptake’s portfolio of advanced analytics. Industrial companies and Ignition users like Ensign Drilling, a global leader in well drilling and services, are using Uptake Fusion to increase productivity and uncover more value from operational data. Currently, Ensign is leveraging the Uptake solution to strengthen the deployment of ML models for data classification.
Uptake Fusion supplemented our on-premise historian in a secure and reliable manner, … The Uptake solution has improved our access to data and enabled better and faster decision-making across business units, accelerating Ensign’s digital transformation.
— Sean Halloran, VP of Wellsite Technology, Ensign
This announcement comes as Uptake recently announced the availability of Uptake Fusion for OSIsoft PI users, as well as its partnership with Wipro, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process company. 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.
Marie has exceptional insight into the digital transformation of enterprise companies, notably best practices of leveraging AI and Cloud to create impactful improvements in productivity, reliability, and customer satisfaction… Her perspective is invaluable as Uptake leverages its leadership in industrial intelligence, transforming machine and operator data into precise insight and optimal action. On behalf of the entire Uptake team, we are excited to welcome Marie.
— Kayne Grau, President, Uptake
For her contributions to technology and business leadership, Wieck was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame and named as a “Woman of Vision STEM Champion” by the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE). In addition, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) recognized Wieck with its Work/Life Balance Award for establishing flexible work arrangement programs while at IBM.
There couldn’t be a more critical time to drive improvements in supply chain efficiency and asset performance, and I’m excited to be joining the board of Uptake as they help companies minimize downtime and turn operational data into an enterprise asset. Uptake’s products and services are the best choice for industrial companies looking to quickly and easily harness the value of AI, IoT, and advanced analytics. The recent acquisition of ShookIOT further strengthens Uptake’s ability to extract insights from complex industrial systems and turn it into action.
— Marie Wieck
Wieck joins existing members of Uptake’s Board, including Ray Lane, Ted Leonsis, and Brad Keywell. In addition to Uptake, Wieck sits on the boards of Daimler AG, Mercedes Benz, the Columbia University School of Engineering, and serves as the Chair of Charity Navigator.
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.
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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