Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has acquired iSolutions Inc., a Canadian-based consulting group with expertise designing and implementing data management solutions. iSolutions provides organisations with decision-support tools to make data-driven production and operational decisions based on the analysis of real-time insights from integrated field and plant systems.
Theacquisition will accelerate delivery of Emerson’s new digital transformationroadmap by adding proven skillsets in information technology/operationaltechnology (IT-OT) and application knowledge to help integrate data from theplant floor to business systems.
“Wemake the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) tangible through our approachfocused on business needs and readiness,” said Thomas Waun, general manager forOperational Certainty Consulting at Emerson. “With the addition of iSolutionsexpertise, Emerson can expedite roadmap implementation and digitaltransformation deployments across organisations – helping them realise fasterreturn on technology investments and achieve top quartile performance in theareas of safety, reliability, energy consumption and production.”
iSolutions has a proven reputation with North American upstream oil and gas, power and utilities customers for its successful and repeatable methodology that transforms plant data into real-time key performance indicator (KPI) visualisation and business intelligence. In addition, its expertise will strengthen Emerson’s Operational Certainty Consulting organisation with the addition of a data management practice for process, hybrid and discrete businesses.
As part of Emerson, iSolutions will help organisations deploy Emerson’s Plantweb™ digital ecosystem, the industry’s most comprehensive IIoT platform.
“We’re excited to join Emerson and expand the reach of our expertise throughout Emerson’s global organisation,” said Anil Datoo, on behalf of the four founding partners at iSolutions. “Together we can continue to make digital transformation practical, accessible and achievable.”
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For more information about iSolutions Inc., visit iSolutions.com.
For more information about Emerson’s Operational Certainty Consulting for digital transformation, visit Emerson.com/OpCertCon.
