OSIsoft Alliances

World-class strategic alliances. 

Microsoft   Cisco   SAP   IBM  

In addition to its partners, OSIsoft has established strategic alliances with world leading technology companies, such as Microsoft, Cisco, SAP and IBM. These strategic alliances represent a deep commitment by OSIsoft to ensure that the PI System® conforms to all applicable technology standards and is built on widely adopted platforms. As a result, PI System® customers can leverage maximum value from their technology investments.


 OSIsoft | Microsoft

Streaming Business Intelligence.

OSIsoft's strategic alliance with Microsoft offers enterprise manufacturers and utilities a secure, highly scalable, real-time data and events infrastructure that can dynamically support ongoing business needs on a trusted platform used by 90% of the manufacturing industry. Key benefits include:
The OSIsoft | Microsoft Alliance delivers these benefits to customers:

  • Increased visibility, by providing everyone in the enterprise with real-time, context-rich access to operational and business information through familiar, easy-to-use desktop tools;
  • Trusted scalability, with the real-time data infrastructure and platform to support mission critical business systems in a secure, scalable, and energy-efficient manner;
  • Streamlined processes that foster continual performance and operational improvement by providing familiar analytical tools combined with process automation and information sharing capabilities.

Learn more about the OSIsoft | Microsoft Strategic Alliance here.


 OSIsoft | Cisco

Real-time monitoring through network devices.

OSIsoft and Cisco are partnering to improve real-time gathering and monitoring of process data in the following industries:

  • Power: In leading power transmission and distribution companies, OSIsoft and Cisco are working to develop substation automation and meter data management aolutions as part of an ongoing trend to respond more quickly to energy supply-and-demand changes;
  • Oil & Gas: In the oil and gas industry, OSIsoft and Cisco are exploring applications in brownfield upstream production and pipeline monitoring. These facilities are generally geographically dispersed, creating networking challenges for real-time systems. Reducing the hardware requirements and simplifying these systems' administration allows larger portions of the system to be continuously monitored for trouble, minimizing costly failures;
  • Datacenter Energy Efficiency/Retail: Applications in retail involve monitoring energy consumption and availability at large retailers. This monitoring within the datacenter can substantially increase profits by reducing energy costs.

OSIsoft and Cisco now offer a joint solution that extends real-time information management into edge networking solutions:

  • The Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP) includes the OSIsoft® PI System® in its series of Integrated Services Routers (ISRs). The resulting device provides the capabilities of a real-time data infrastructure as an integral component of Cisco's network infrastructure.
  • OSIsoft's PI information management software, when integrated into Cisco's ISR, enables cost-effective, global deployment of secure, robust, intelligent network infrastructure to many assets that have not previously been monitored in real time.
  • Along with collecting and managing critical real-time operations data, this joint solution also collects information on the health and security of the network itself, and uses Cisco's proven suite of connectivity and application solutions.


 OSIsoft | SAP

Building a Seamless Framework for Plant Integration with Business Intelligence

Two technology leaders, OSIsoft and SAP, provide today’s enterprise with a combined software solution needed to create the “Perfect Plant.” The first step is to methodically engineer and collect plant floor data from all sources into a PI System infrastructure. Equally critical is the technology to connect to data from the corporate SAP ERP system.. The end result is a combination and integration of transactional data and process data using a variety of technologies delivered by SAP and OSIsoft. OSIsoft and SAP products use the best available information technology to achieve operational excellence across utilities and manufacturing companies. OSIsoft and SAP software platforms are seen throughout our combined customer base in:

  • Power & Utilities
  • Pharmaceuticals, Food & Life Sciences
  • Chemicals & Petrochemicals
  • Oil & Gas
  • Pulp & Paper
  • Materials, Mines, Metals & Metallurgy
  • Critical Facilities, Data Centers & IT

Learn more about the OSIsoft | SAP alliance here. 

 OSIsoft | IBM

Integration of PI with IBM's Maximo solution:  

  • OSIsoft has a partnership agreement with IBM for integration of PI with IBM’s Maximo solution. PI Data Access provides real time data to Maximo, thus facilitating condition-based maintenance in Maximo.
  • Critical information from the PI System provides the triggers for maintenance/repair/overhaul of plant equipment from detailed plant floor operating data. PI Data Access and specifically, PI Notifications and PI Web Services allow for the exchange of events and information between the plant floor and Maximo.