New Capabilities in Element Unify 5.0 Streamline the Process of Moving Industrial Data to the Cloud

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March 15, 2023

Element Unify 5.0 simplifies making industrial data actionable from the cloud

March 15, 2023 - San Francisco, CA – Today, Element, a leading provider of operations data management software to global industrials, announced the latest release of its industrial data operations platform, Element Unify 5.0. This version includes an innovative new feature, Time Series Data Mover, which streamlines the process of turning industrial data to useful insights or actionable alerts in the cloud.

Data is the foundation of any digital transformation and most industrial enterprises are gathering data in unprecedented amounts. From equipment sensors to drone surveys and automated production lines to employees entering information in mobile apps, the volume and format of data is vast. Organizations need that data to be accessible, relevant, and contextual.

Cloud computing and storage have significantly simplified the accessibility challenge. Making the data relevant with context still remains a daunting, expensive and often non reusable task. Unfortunately, data silos are often also transferred to the cloud alongside the data which may lack necessary context and require processing via mash-ups before they are useful. Adding to the problem, the code used to mash-up the data is often not standardized or reusable, resulting in additional time and expenses.

The Element Unify Time Series Data Mover is an easy-to-use single tool for managing your model and your time series data. With Time Series Data Mover, the data can be mixed, matched, or mashed prior to being stored in your preferred data lake or data warehouse. This eliminates the need for the application team to spend time wrangling the data, allowing them to utilize it immediately. As your data migrates to the cloud, it can be embellished with sufficient metadata to facilitate seamless integration with the rest of your data ecosystem. This both simplifies and minimizes the effort needed to derive value from data during runtime.

With this release, Element Unify gives customers an affordable, reusable, and efficient solution for making operational data from plants and sites ready for cloud consumption by analytics or monitoring tools.

The initial release of Element Unify 5.0 will include:

  • Connector for PI Data Archive to import time series events with associated PI tags
  • Updates to Unify to store and process streaming time series data
  • Ability to use Unify transform blocks to help with no-code mashup of time series data with model metadata
  • Unify Connector for AWS RedShift to export time series data streams
  • Unify Connector API for exporting time series data streams to other systems

Additionally, users will be able to respond quickly to issues by viewing Pipeline status with the new Pipeline status log. Other enhancements and bug fixes are also included in this update.

The general availability of Element Unify 5.0 is mid-march 2023.

About Element

Element is a leading software provider in operations data management. Element Unify enables the Industrial Data Fabric architecture through a unified data model to empower people with access to operations data to make faster decisions that deliver financial impact. Element’s customers represent over $750 billion in revenue, $500 billion in fixed assets and 450,000 employees. To learn more about Element, please visit www.elementanalytics.com and follow the company on LinkedIn.

Contact:

Briscoe Pelkey
bpelkey@elementanalytics.com