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1999 Year in Review

1999 Year in Review. Phil Ryder. Welcome to:. PI Sigmafine RLINK Universal Data Adaptor. The OSI Software Users Conference. Effect of Y2K. The power stayed on The missiles stayed in the silos PI Systems around the world continued to work OSI closed out another record year.

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1999 Year in Review

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  1. 1999 Year in Review Phil Ryder

  2. Welcome to: • PI • Sigmafine • RLINK • Universal Data Adaptor The OSI Software Users Conference

  3. Effect of Y2K • The power stayed on • The missiles stayed in the silos • PI Systems around the world continued to work • OSI closed out another record year > $50 million in sales

  4. Results for 1999 • $50.2 million in sales • >25% growth • 280 new customers

  5. Some New Customers

  6. Success Comes From: • Great Products • Great Customer References • Increased Sales Coverage

  7. Increased Sales Coverage • Has its challenges

  8. Marketing Efforts in ’99 • Advertising • Public Relations • Me and My PI • Devnet

  9. Me and My PI Contest • Winners: • First Place: • Cerex Fabrics • Runners up: • Nippon Chemicals • Alunorte • Biochemie • Clean Dry Air

  10. Cerex First prize: Free admission to the users conference 1,000 tag PI Server 100 ActiveViews

  11. OSI Devnet • Launched third quarter of 1999 • Over 1,000 Registered Users • Thousands of downloads • Applications • ActiveX controls • Add-in’s • Excel Scripts and Wizards • Technical Articles

  12. OSI Devnet

  13. OSI Devnet ePI

  14. ePI • Provides Structure for ActiveView • Track and manage downloads of “PDI” displays • Authorize and track use of ActiveView • Who used what See Curt Hertler’s presentation on Wednesday @ 10:00

  15. New Products Will Have a Dramatic Effect on Our Growth • Universal Data Adaptor/Universal Data Server (PI without the history) • Module Database • “Batch” Subsystem • Integrated PI/Sigmafine

  16. Sigmafine “We used to argue over numbers. Now we have one place where we go to (SAP) where we get the official numbers for the Company” CIO of a major chemical company What if the numbers are Wrong? “It’s common to optimistically assume that data is clean, but that’s usually a very bad and costly assumption” John Carro, CIO of Unisys **

  17. L1 T101 F1 L3 S1 F2 T1 T103 T1 L2 T102 S2 SigmafineData Reconciliation • Identify sources of erroneous data through statistical methods • Apply correction factors to make material balances work • Yield reports • Bad meter reports • Identify meters that need to be fixed

  18. Module Database • Concept introduced last year as “equipment database” • Much more generic in nature than being just an equipment DB • Recipe Management • Personnel Management • User Context • “17” applications that use the Module Database

  19. New “Batch” Subsystem Much more comprehensive functionality Batch unit batchsub-batch sub-batch Applicable to many more processes New name for PI Batch?

  20. Year of RLINK • The market wasn’t ready when we first introduced RLINK • Large Roll out at Eastman Chemicals • Use at Dow Corning, Geon, etc. • QM Certification • PM Certification in the works See Johnette McDaniel’s presentation on RLINK @ Eastman Chemical -

  21. Native Win 32 Active X COM Microsoft’s DNA Internet Explorer User Services HTML/XML Client-Side Script Java Applets ActiveX HTTP DCOM Business Services IIS / ASP COM / MTS ADO ADSI OLE-DB MSMQ Data Services SQL Server PI System Internet Index Server Catalog Site Server Directory Oracle, etc.

  22. OSI’s Version PlantSuite Server Client Apps • ActiveView • ProcessBook • Datalink • Batch View • Etc. Calculations Batch TemplateMonitor OLE DB Connect Module DB RT - SQC SigmaFine Batch Tracking RLINK Universal Data Adapter COMConnector COMConnector COMConnector SQL Server OtherHistorians ComponentHistorian

  23. Return of Unix? (Linux) • OSI still supports Unix Ironically, we’re the best positioned company to support this market

  24. Survival • Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. • Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. • It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running!

  25. PI NoPI The Effect of PI

  26. Finally We’ll work hard to continue to earn it! Thank you for your business in 1999

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