AVEVA Business Intelligence Gateway

Unleash the power of data in context. Transforming industrial data into actionable intelligence.

The Tool Driving Plant Performance

Dashboard, reports and other tools are only as efficient as the data they access.

Individually, data sources usually deliver valuable information to end users. However, when data sources are joined together in a single, trusted data set that covers industrial operations in its entirety, the business value of visualisation tools thrives.

Intelligence synthesises data from across the plant. It reveals relationships that would be all but invisible otherwise. It models big data into manageable chunks, allowing industrial teams to track performance against the metrics that matter most – with adequate time to make a difference.

Gain new insights into optimisation potentials that could be hidden away in disconnected functional domains – or in separate datasets. Through the provision of a single version of the truth and by contextualising data, Intelligence assists you in making strategic sense from your production data.

Harness the Power of Data in Context

AVEVA Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) software connects multiple plant and enterprise data sources simultaneously; in order to reveal how disparate industrial operations are affecting each other.

Customers have reported outstanding results, which include:

Quality Improvements

Improvement in Productivity

Reduction in Energy

Asset Utilisation

The Business Case

Intelligence continuously computes the metrics crucial to improving plant, multi-plant or infrastructure performance.

This allows for tighter adherence to operating goals with near real-time resolution. You will be better able to understand the impact of planning, execution, staffing and equipment behaviour on key strategic variables. These include quality, performance and material, as well as energy consumption.

This powerful solution empowers you to maximise return on investment in plant floor and enterprise solutions. As a result, the business-relevant context hidden in the distributed data of your existing applications is unlocked. Intelligence also adds the information and insight essential for more transparency into the true cost and profit contributions from each of your operations.

Making Collaborative Operations Possible

Making sure that everyone has timely access to their key metrics is critical. However, if metrics are unaligned with operational strategies, people could be working at cross-purposes.

Intelligence makes true operations collaboration possible, by offering actionable information that is easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and tailored to the various operational roles in your plant. It empowers both expert and casual users to gain benefit from the process know-how that already exists in your operations.

Connecting Data Sources – All of Them

Simultaneously connect multiple plant and enterprise data sources to reveal how disparate industrial operations affect each other. In the context of KPIs, Intelligence’s operational intelligence tools model these relationships among vast amounts of data. Powerful software calculates and then displays variations in metrics in near real-time. A user-friendly analytics dashboard assists users in monitoring progress and sharing results across an array of devices, at any time and from any location.

Transforming Data Into Strategic Advantage

Without the organised data modelling which Intelligence offers, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to make sense of such vast amounts of data. With Intelligence’s modelling, you get a single version of operating truth that ERP systems, data warehouses and enterprise business intelligence tools require in order to strategically interpret production or operations data. Predefined data models significantly shorten time-to-insight, enabling you to see value from the outset. Intelligence removes the necessity for IT services to create reports and dashboards. Instead, it empowers users with self-service access to operational intelligence.

Making Collaborative Operations Possible

Connecting Data Sources – All of Them

Transforming Data Into Strategic Advantage

Making Collaborative Operations Possible

Making sure that everyone has timely access to their key metrics is critical. However, if metrics are unaligned with operational strategies, people could be working at cross-purposes.

Connecting Data Sources – All of Them

Transforming Data Into Strategic Advantage

Intelligence Architecture

Intelligence is made up of two key parts: a server and its clients.

Intelligence Server

Intelligence Server is at the heart of the solution. It provides data acquisition, aggregation, contextualisation and organisation of data from multiple sources into one, business-friendly information model. Time-slicing is a unique Intelligence capability. Time-slicing correlates time-series data from process historians with events like shifts, batches and equipment states.This makes calculations and analysis, that would otherwise be difficult and error-prone, possible. Intelligence also offers pre-defined models for data sources, empowering you with dashboards – in mere minutes. Additionally, the Intelligence Server is scalable – from a single site/single server to multiple servers, which enables data hosting from multiple sites.

Analytics Client

Intelligence comes integrated with Tableau Software. Since 2013, Tableau has been positioned by industry analyst Gartner as a leader in the BI (Business Intelligence) Magic Quadrant.Tableau Software is a user-friendly analytics and visualisation tool. It can be leveraged by users from the plant floor to corporate offices to explore and analyse Intelligence data and view KPIs, as well as create charts and dashboards.

This approach is self-reliant. It significantly reduces the need for IT services to create reports and dashboards, while empowering end users to instantly access the information they need.

Intelligence Features

Intelligence reveals hidden information from your plant data sources by assembling and organising a single information model – enabling easy reporting, analysis, and visualisation.

Enhanced Monitoring

Monitor materials consumption, production, energy utilisation, quality or other metrics through the use of intuitive, intelligent dashboards. When it is possible to see, correct, improve or maintain more effectively and with ease, it keeps everyone in the game and ensures smooth-running operations.

Synthesise Data from Any Source

Blend data from AVEVA – or from third-party applications. Harness the power of System Platform as well as your MES, LIMS, ERP or PDM for a steadily consistent, enterprise-wide view. View historian and transactional data in mutual context.

Monetise Data

Simple configuration tools help to define cost, quality, production, energy, material consumption and various other metrics from separate data sources. Intelligence’s powerful transformation engine computes those metrics at the right time, so rendering them consumable by presentation, planning as well as data warehousing software.

Cross Industry and Cross Function

Intelligence software can be used in any industry – food and beverage, primary metals, oil and gas, chemicals, infrastructure or energy. Not merely an excellent enterprise manufacturing intelligence solution, Intelligence can also be applied in power generation, supply chain, transportation and virtually all other industrial operations. Wherever there is data to be captured, Intelligence can help you to interpret it.

Intelligence functionality (BI Gateway) in the Cloud

AVEVA Insight is a cost-effective software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. It drives operational continuity and improves performance. It is simple to set up, manage and utilise, without requiring any additional IT infrastructure or staffing. AVEVA Insight makes it possible for you to quickly turn data that is sitting in existing and new industrial assets and processes into a live information feed that is used for decision support.

Benefit from smooth, automatic updates and scalability for your business requirements. Enable faster, more informed decision-making for all users, with up-to-date intelligence, newsfeeds and alerts. Translate time-series data into intuitive charts and dashboards.

Adding BI Gateway to AVEVA Insight makes it possible for companies to:

Gain a better understanding of their business. Know what is happening, what has happened and what is likely to happen – with immediate access to relevant data.
Unlock operational data from the control room and make it accessible where and when it is needed.
Empower employees to become active participants in real-time workstreams, as well as enhancing collaboration between teams.
Bridge the IT/OT gap and share critical process information with finance and business teams.
Identify hidden opportunities for increasing asset performance, minimising operational costs and driving improved production results.