Thought Leadership #3 - OT/IT Integration is not just about Data and Technology

As the head of Global Commercial Operations for Uptake, Ajay Madwesh created a five-part video and blog series on thought leadership. This is the third installment of the series discussing how OT/IT Integration is not just about Data and Technology.

Read the video transcript below for your own convenience:

Often, it's mistaken that OT/IT is all about just organizing data into databases. But, in reality, OT (operational technologies) is not just about data.

IoT

People talk about IoT (Internet of Things), But what are the “things” that they talk about there? The “things” are things like compressors or turbines, or valves. These “things” are not the same as my cell phone – which is also an IoT device. So if the market generally talks about OT/IT integration as something in that you put all the OT data and the IT data in one place, such as a Data Lake – do you achieve OT/IT integration?

OT/IT integration

In reality, those data sets don't really mesh together as easily. Until you completely understand the nature of the OT data itself. It is very hard to merge that data into the IT data sets.

One of the things that Fusion does is bring the context of these data sets into the cloud. That allows for a meaningful merger of the data because it retains the actual nature of the site, factory, plant, etc., in the data itself. This allows for a better meshing of the data from IT systems into the Fusion data, which ultimately leads to a much better understanding of the operations along with the IT data. 

So our position at Uptake Fusion is that it's not just about data and technology but rather about understanding what OT is and contextualizing that OT data.

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