AVEVA and OSIsoft Combine Accelerating Digital Transformation of Industrial World

Combined Product Offering to Support Customers in Optimizing Operations, Driving Sustainability and Creating Greater Value

25th August 2020 – AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, and OSIsoft, a global leader in real-time industrial data software and services, have announced an agreement for AVEVA to acquire OSIsoft for $5.0 billion. AVEVA and OSIsoft will combine their complementary product offerings, bringing together industrial software and data management to help customers in industrial and essential organizations accelerate their digital transformational strategies as efficiency, flexibility, sustainability and resilience become increasingly urgent requirements for customers.

OSIsoft’s data management software will complement AVEVA’s comprehensive end-to-end engineering, operations, and performance offerings. Integrating OSIsoft’s PI System into AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio will create an integrated data foundation that can drive big data, Cloud and AI-driven insights to create meaningful business outcomes for customers. This combination enables AVEVA to grow and diversify the industries it serves as well as continue to expand its footprint in existing and new markets and geographies.

Together, AVEVA and OSIsoft can provide full-stack solutions that span edge, plant, and enterprise deployment models, strengthening AVEVA’s position as a global leader in industrial software. With a combined 93 years of operating expertise and experience, they share a history of meeting the rapidly changing and evolving needs of their industrial customers, built on foundations of customer centricity and world-class talent. In addition to sharing a complementary solutions portfolio, this transaction further validates AVEVA’s leading position in digitization and IIoT.

OSIsoft’s PI System enables customers to collect, normalize, store, and stream real-time, high-fidelity operational data to applications, analytics, and AI and ML platforms. PI System acts as a single system of record for operations data, designed for massive cloud-enabled scale and data sharing across enterprises, and enables insightful operations decision making. OSIsoft works with over 1,000 of the world’s leading power and utilities companies, 38 of the Global Fortune Top 40 oil and gas companies, all of the Global Fortune Top 10 metals and mining companies, 37 out of 50 of the world's largest chemical and petrochemical companies and 9 out of 10 of the Global Fortune Top 10 pharmaceutical companies.

Building Stakeholder Value and Improving Sustainability

The complementary product offerings of AVEVA and OSIsoft will allow the combined company to continue to generate significant value for its stakeholders by creating new opportunities for innovation using new and emerging technologies. The two product suites are open and interoperable, and many customers leverage both solution sets today. As a combined entity, AVEVA and OSIsoft can further deliver on their sustainability goals, driving significant benefits and value for their customers. With broader, deeper scale and scope to lead the digital transformation of the industrial sector, the combined company will drive greater efficiencies and sustainability for many diverse essential industries, including consumer packaged goods (CPG), pharmaceutical, water and wastewater, and utilities, creating strengthened product offerings.

Commenting on the agreement, Craig Hayman, CEO of AVEVA, said: “Combining AVEVA and OSIsoft is yet another significant milestone in our journey to achieving the ambitious growth goals that we have set. This will not only help us serve existing customers better but also open the flood gates to new opportunities which will accelerate the delivery of our digitization vision. Data has been enabling organizations to more effectively determine the cause of problems by allowing them to visualize what is happening in different locations, departments and systems.  This agreement will enable our customers to improve business processes as well as eliminate inefficiencies. We are extremely proud to be moving into the next chapter with an even stronger solutions portfolio as well as an ever-increasing and robust customer base which continues to make us leaders in our sector.”

OSIsoft founder and CEO Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy added: “Joining forces with AVEVA enhances and extends our ability to deliver on our key commitments to our customers, partners and employees. Together we will be better able to service the largest digital transformation projects in history, including across industry 4.0+ and IIoT. AVEVA’s interest in OSIsoft is a testament to our talented team, and the extraordinary value of the PI System as the real-time streaming data infrastructure that powers the industrial world. Today’s announcement is the culmination of a thoughtful search for a respected organization that would mesh with our own strong mission- and customer-driven culture.The next chapter in PI’s fifth decade will be exciting for our employees and customers, and I look forward to my continued involvement in my new role as the largest individual shareholder in the combined company and as Chairman Emeritus to ensure we realize the full benefits of this transaction.”

AVEVA劍維軟件以50億美元收購(gòu)OSIsoft，聯(lián)合推動(dòng)工業(yè)數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型

組合產(chǎn)品支持客戶優(yōu)化運(yùn)營(yíng)，推動(dòng)可持續(xù)發(fā)展并創(chuàng)造更大價(jià)值

2020年8月25日消息，全球工業(yè)軟件領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者AVEVA劍維軟件與實(shí)時(shí)工業(yè)數(shù)據(jù)軟件和服務(wù)全球領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者OSIsoft宣布達(dá)成一項(xiàng)協(xié)議，AVEVA劍維軟件將以50億美元的價(jià)格收購(gòu)OSIsoft。隨著效率、靈活性、可持續(xù)性和彈性成為客戶越來(lái)越迫切的需求，AVEVA劍維軟件和OSIsoft將整合其互補(bǔ)產(chǎn)品，將工業(yè)軟件和數(shù)據(jù)管理結(jié)合起來(lái)，幫助工業(yè)和重要組織中的客戶加快其數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型戰(zhàn)略。

OSIsoft的數(shù)據(jù)管理軟件將納入AVEVA全面的端到端工程、運(yùn)營(yíng)和績(jī)效產(chǎn)品。將OSIsoft的PI系統(tǒng)（Plant Information System）集成到AVEVA劍維軟件的綜合軟件產(chǎn)品組合中，將創(chuàng)建一個(gè)集成的數(shù)據(jù)基礎(chǔ)，可以推動(dòng)大數(shù)據(jù)、云和人工智能驅(qū)動(dòng)的洞察力，為客戶創(chuàng)造有意義的業(yè)務(wù)成果。這一并購(gòu)使AVEVA能夠發(fā)展和多元化其所服務(wù)的行業(yè)，并繼續(xù)擴(kuò)大其在現(xiàn)有和新市場(chǎng)及地區(qū)的覆蓋范圍。

AVEVA劍維軟件和OSIsoft可以聯(lián)合提供涵蓋邊緣、工廠和企業(yè)部署模型的全棧解決方案，鞏固AVEVA劍維軟件作為工業(yè)軟件全球領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者的地位。兩家公司擁有加起來(lái)長(zhǎng)達(dá)93年的運(yùn)營(yíng)專業(yè)知識(shí)和經(jīng)驗(yàn)，在以客戶為中心和世界一流人才的基礎(chǔ)上，他們有滿足工業(yè)客戶快速變化和發(fā)展需求的歷史底蘊(yùn)。除了共享互補(bǔ)的解決方案產(chǎn)品組合外，該交易還進(jìn)一步證明了AVEVA劍維軟件在數(shù)字化和工業(yè)物聯(lián)網(wǎng)領(lǐng)域的領(lǐng)先地位。

OSIsoft的PI系統(tǒng)使客戶能夠收集、規(guī)范、存儲(chǔ)實(shí)時(shí)、高保真的運(yùn)營(yíng)數(shù)據(jù)，并將其傳輸?shù)綉?yīng)用、分析、人工智能和ML平臺(tái)。PI系統(tǒng)作為運(yùn)營(yíng)數(shù)據(jù)的單一記錄系統(tǒng)，專為支持大規(guī)模云的規(guī)模和跨企業(yè)的數(shù)據(jù)共享而設(shè)計(jì)，并支持深刻的運(yùn)營(yíng)決策制定。OSIsoft與1000多家世界領(lǐng)先的電力和公用事業(yè)公司、全球財(cái)富40強(qiáng)石油和天然氣公司中的38家、所有全球財(cái)富10強(qiáng)金屬和礦業(yè)公司、37家全球最大的化學(xué)和石化公司以及9家全球財(cái)富10強(qiáng)制藥公司合作。

為利益相關(guān)方創(chuàng)造價(jià)值并增強(qiáng)可持續(xù)性

AVEVA劍維軟件和OSIsoft的產(chǎn)品互補(bǔ)將使合并后的公司通過(guò)利用新興技術(shù)創(chuàng)造新的創(chuàng)新機(jī)會(huì)，繼續(xù)為其利益相關(guān)方創(chuàng)造重大價(jià)值。這兩個(gè)產(chǎn)品套件是開(kāi)放且可互操作的，許多客戶現(xiàn)在都在使用這兩個(gè)解決方案。作為一個(gè)合并的實(shí)體，AVEVA劍維軟件和OSIsoft可以進(jìn)一步實(shí)現(xiàn)他們的可持續(xù)發(fā)展目標(biāo)，為客戶帶來(lái)巨大的利益和價(jià)值。憑借更廣泛、更深入的規(guī)模和范圍來(lái)引領(lǐng)工業(yè)領(lǐng)域的數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型，合并后的公司將為許多不同的垂直行業(yè)帶來(lái)更高的效率和可持續(xù)性，包括消費(fèi)品包裝、制藥、水和廢水處理以及公用事業(yè)，從而創(chuàng)造更強(qiáng)大的產(chǎn)品供應(yīng)。

AVEVA劍維軟件首席執(zhí)行官Craig Hayman評(píng)論表示：“AVEVA劍維軟件和OSIsoft的合并是我們實(shí)現(xiàn)既定宏偉增長(zhǎng)目標(biāo)之旅的又一個(gè)重要里程碑。這不僅有助于我們更好地為現(xiàn)有客戶服務(wù)，還能打開(kāi)新機(jī)遇的大門，從而加快我們數(shù)字化愿景的實(shí)現(xiàn)。數(shù)據(jù)使組織能夠更有效地確定問(wèn)題所在，使他們能夠直觀地看到不同地點(diǎn)、部門和系統(tǒng)中發(fā)生的情況。該協(xié)議將使我們的客戶能夠改進(jìn)業(yè)務(wù)流程并消除低效。我們非常自豪能夠憑借更強(qiáng)大的解決方案組合和不斷增長(zhǎng)的強(qiáng)大客戶群進(jìn)入下一個(gè)篇章，這將繼續(xù)使我們成為我們行業(yè)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。”

OSIsoft創(chuàng)始人兼首席執(zhí)行官J. Patrick Kennedy博士補(bǔ)充說(shuō)：“與AVEVA劍維軟件攜手合作，增強(qiáng)和擴(kuò)展了我們向客戶、合作伙伴和員工履行我們重要承諾的能力。我們一起將能夠更好地為歷史上最大的數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型項(xiàng)目提供服務(wù)，包括橫跨工業(yè)4.0和工業(yè)物聯(lián)網(wǎng)。AVEVA劍維軟件對(duì)OSIsoft的興趣證明了我們團(tuán)隊(duì)的才華橫溢，以及PI系統(tǒng)作為支持工業(yè)界的實(shí)時(shí)流數(shù)據(jù)基礎(chǔ)結(jié)構(gòu)的非凡價(jià)值。今天這個(gè)宣布是對(duì)一家受人尊敬的組織進(jìn)行深思熟慮的最終結(jié)果，該組織將與我們自己強(qiáng)大的使命和客戶驅(qū)動(dòng)文化相呼應(yīng)。PI第五個(gè)十年的下一篇章對(duì)我們的員工和客戶而言將是令人興奮的，我期待著作為合并后公司的最大個(gè)人股東和名譽(yù)董事長(zhǎng)，繼續(xù)我的新角色，以確保我們實(shí)現(xiàn)此次交易的全部利益。”