Halfway Analytics are for Halfway Decision-Makers
Sure, you've got analytics. You’re producing numbers, tables and charts. You’ve transmuted data into information with graphs, diagrams and, even, maps. These are all convenient abstractions with all the drawbacks of abstraction. They are just representations of reality. They are reality filters that miss a crucial element - visual understanding of your operations in space and time.
There is an old saying, "the map is not the territory." It misses physical obstacles, washed out roads, rock slides and local inclement weather. You wouldn’t drive your car by watching the map on your GPS navigator instead of looking through the windshield. Why would you make business decisions based on two-dimensional abstractions of reality? Even fruit bats with brains the size of marbles use sonar to capture a real-time, physical view of where they going.
In the fable of the blind men and the elephant, six blind men touch an elephant to learn what it is. Each touches a different part. Then, they compare notes and find themselves in total disagreement. The one who touched the trunk thinks an elephant is like a snake. The man who touched a leg thinks it’s like a tree and so on. No one has the complete picture, only fragments of reality. This is like a team where each individual has dashboard analytics customized for his function, but no view to how they play in the real, visual world.
Space-Time Insight delivers the real world with the Space-Time Awareness Server
The Space-Time Awareness Server produces composite real-time geospatial and temporal analytics based on consolidations and computations from
- Real-time external data feeds
- Environmental and equipment sensor data
- ERPs, data bases, legacy systems
- Business intelligence analyses
The results are projected on global, regional and plant-level satellite views with images and symbols fortified by query and drill-down capability to capture the specifics of context.
Space-time Awareness delivers 4D, real-time visuals for:
- The Operating status and external context of assets globally
- Real-time performance for timely decisions
- Graphical simulations
- Temporal analysis for forensics, audit, training, problem-solving and planning
You may be an energy company confronting transmission and grid stability round-the-clock or facing the distribution challenges of demand and response in a smart grid. You may be an oil and gas company with massive asset management challenges and remedial action schemes for multiple safety and reliability scenarios. You may be a chemical or pharmaceutical manufacturer with complex global supply chain and distribution challenges. Or, you may be a health and safety organization tracking the speed of dispersion and impact of a vaccine or disease across multiple population segments and geographies.
Whatever your enterprise, fast and accurate decision-making requires real-time answers to who, what, when and where, drawn from multiple data sources, consolidated, analyzed and visually mapped in time and space for timely understanding and confident action.
It's time to take the blinders off and get perspective. No more halfway decisions based on halfway analytics.
