Transcript - OSIsoft

1998 Year in Review
and Look forward
Phil Ryder
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
1999 PI System Users’ Conference
This Presentation
Outline last year’s accomplishments
New Stuff for this year
How software developments will
effect our business
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Sales
$39.7 Million in sales
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95% License fees and TSA
 < 5% Engineering services
23 % Growth Vs 1996
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Sales by Region
8%
4%
usa
canada
17%
latin america
58%
6%
8%
europe
asia/pacific
middle east/Africa
Number of Systems
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1998 Sales by Platform
Percentage
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
NT Intel
open
VMS
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NT Alpha
DUX
HPUX
AIX
Solaris
New Customers and Significant Expansions
141 New Customers last year
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Some Common Themes
Batch Customers
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A significant portion of the active S88 members
bought PI in 1998
Utilities
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Good customers are buying stations
T&D
Sub stations
Mining
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Sales were good despite low prices
Enterprise PI
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Enterprise PI?
Is that some kind of new Product?
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Same stuff, just lots of it
~36% of our Total Sales in
1998 were from PO’s that
included Multi-Plant PI sales
What’s good for one plant is
good for them all
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Comparisons between plants
Synergy between plants
Teaming
Product Tracking
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A Few New Enterprise PI
Customers
International Paper
Eastman
Lubrizol
Shell Chemicals
UOP
Codelco
Ameren
First Energy
Coors Brewing
Carolina Power &Light
Reichold Chemicals
Detroit Edison
Western Resources / KCPL
PEPCO
MOL
Alcan
Abitibi-Consolidated
US Generating
Partners and OEM’s
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Partners bring us many opportunities
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There will be a whole room full of partners Tuesday
OEM’s - In 1999 we will ship more systems than
we have in history of OSI
Little direct revenue from OEM’s
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Customer benefits from easy connections to PI
OSI benefits by increased presence in the market
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“The PI System is the
Plant Information for the Masses”
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As opposed to “Totally Responsive Application
Software and Historians - Custom Applied to
your Needs”
“Software for the masses” is the only software
that has any future
Volume is key to:
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supportability
de-bugging
feedback
profit
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What is the alternative to TRASH-CAN?
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Software that goes through continuous
improvement
Software on which you can develop applications
on yourself
Software that interacts easily with Quality
software produced by other vendors
Software that provides a solid infrastructure so
that Integrators can work at the SOLUTION level
Software that makes money for you now and for
many years to come
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Developing Applications Yourself
Little-ware
Small High Value Applications
You can do it yourself
Close to end user’s needs
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You too can be a geek
Our goal is to turn every one of you
into programmers
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Whether you know it or not.
Code Generators
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Excel Macros
 Wizards
 Script Libraries
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A Couple of Demos
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“But I don’t have time to become a Geek”
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DevNet
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We finally have the OSI Developer’s
Network ready to go
• Developer’s Work-shop on Thursday
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New Person to run the program
• Curt Hertler from BP
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Available to all customers on TSA and
partners
Tools that can be applied by System
Administrators but be used by all
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Add-ins
Server based tools
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What’s New
This Year ?
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More Sales Representation
Overseas
OSI Singapore in place
OSI Japan
Sales Agents
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Sigmafine
200 Customers
15 to 18 new employees
A core application on top of PI
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New Price List
Active View Pricing
Batch Template Manager
Batch Template Server
Later - An entirely different structure
for PI and PI Pricing
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More about this in a few slides
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What’s not new?
PI Stands for Plant Information
Data archiving is just one function that we provide
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We happen to do this better than anyone else in the world
Interfaces
Data Transport
Off-the-shelf Clients
Application development environment
Batch and Product Tracking
Data reconciliation
ERP Connection
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Product trends that I think are important
from a business perspective
Equipment Model
Batch Model
Middle-tier Software
Web Interaction
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Some Old Ideas Are Just Too
Good to Go Away
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PlantSuite Server
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Equipment Model
 Batch Model
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Data Reconciliation
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Automatic material balances
 Yield Accounting
 Filter for Data going to ERP
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From the 1997 Users Conference
PlantSuite Server is still a great concept
(And a pretty cool trade name)
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Future Design for Plant
Information
Sigmafine
Reconciliation
ERP Connection
Third Party
Applications
PI Infrastructure
Real-Time SQC
Clients
Interfaces
PI Event
Manager
Network
Performance
Equations
Batch Monitoring
and Tracking
Plant / Equipment
Communications
Model
OLEDB
Provider
PI Data
Historian
This is What We Call PI Now
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This is roughly what we
haveOther
called PlantSuite
Historians
Back to the Present
Once Again, we would like to say:
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