• Our specialty: Getting enterprise manufacturing information into the hands of the decision-makers now rather than later.
• Our philosophy: Use the top talent to develop and apply a successful product using the latest techniques in design, specification and testing.
• Our solution: Bring your data into your technology world. You already use Microsoft® Office®. It only makes good technical sense and business sense to use what you know and what you already have.

Incuity Software, Inc. is a privately-held Delaware corporation founded in 2004 in Mission Viejo, California. Although new as a corporation, the founders and staff of Incuity Software, formerly known as DataWorks Systems, have a long history in the design, development and marketing of industrial automation database and data analysis software products.

The original company was called Ptm Software LLC and was based in South Africa, where the founders created a real-time data handling front-end for the Microsoft SQL Server™ relational database.

Developed for use by the company's system integration customers, the original product, called Prealism, provided the ability to acquire production data from the plant floor at the high speed and broad bandwidth needed to capture real-time data in a live mode, and yet provided easy user access to that data using standard structured query language (SQL) queries for data analysis and reporting.

Ptm Software was acquired by Wonderware® Corporation, now a unit of Invensys Systems, in 1995, and the development team enhanced the Prealism database to create what became Wonderware's IndustrialSQL Server™ real-time plant historian. This module became a critical element of Wonderware's FactorySuite™ software offerings for discrete manufacturing, batch and continuous process automation applications.

In 1998, the founders of Ptm Software established a new company called DataWorks Systems to create a suite of data analysis and reporting clients for use with IndustrialSQL Server. This product, called ActiveFactory™, allows users to easily access plant and process data through simple point-and-click dialogues and to manage numerical data analysts, data trend analysis and comprehensive data reporting, as well as to publish both real-time and historical plant data via the Internet or a company intranet. More than 45,000 ActiveFactory seats are now in use in virtually all industries, in 13 different languages and in more than 40 countries around the world.

In addition to its product development programs, DataWorks provided custom application solutions tailored to specific end user customer needs.

New Growth Path

Incuity is now embarking on development of new high performance software products that go beyond today's business intelligence systems offerings to provide true enterprise manufacturing intelligence for decision support. The goal is to enable companies to integrate their enterprise business systems with plant floor production systems, including integration of disparate manufacturing systems from multiple vendors. This is essential for agile manufacturing because it reduces production waste, eliminates wasted data entry effort, improves business systems, and reduces errors.

Incuity's design goals are to allow companies to gain immediate and deep insight into all aspects of the business using an integrated dashboard that's viewable over the Internet or corporate intranets. Data views will be configurable for a spectrum of users – from executive management to plant operators – to enable informed decision-making at every level of an organization, based on real-world events. Key to these capabilities will be the ability of Incuity products to integrate with existing control systems, data historians, enterprise business systems and databases of all types so that they don't obsolete the infrastructure already in place in most plants.

What makes Incuity's product different from existing business intelligence software products? Several things. Current offerings cover a broad range of capabilities and they all have drawbacks. These include:

• Expensive custom projects that usually involve long installations and require high maintenance and a high total cost of ownership over time
• Off-the-shelf business intelligence or business activity monitoring products that don't reach down to the real-time plant floor domain without the development of custom interface code
• Standard plant historians, which typically handle only plant process historical data, not discrete manufacturing data
• Automation systems for control and monitoring of production operations, but which focus on integrated, total automation solutions and don't connect to enterprise business systems without development of custom code
• Manufacturing intelligence products, but these often require invasive reconfiguration of control and automation systems and they don't connect to business systems without custom code interfacing

Incuity's design goals for its next generation products provide non-invasive business intelligence and analytical solutions at all levels within a manufacturing enterprise, as out-of-the-box solutions that will leverage widely-used standard Microsoft foundation technologies.
 

Facilities

The company's headquarters offices are in Mission Viejo, California, and include executive, sales and marketing, research, engineering and administrative facilities. The company also has regional offices in Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada and Texas in the U.S. as well as in Duesseldorf, Germany, and Johannesburg, South Africa. The company also maintains a Professional Services group in Burlington, ON, Canada.
 
Executive Team

The executive management team at Incuity Software includes:

• Doug Lawson, Chief Executive Officer
• Ted Hill, Chief Financial Officer
• John Theron, Chief Product Officer
• Dr. Rainer Hessmer, Ph.D., Chief Software Architect
• Gary Wilson, Vice President, Sales
• Neville van der Merwe, Vice President, Product Development
• Andrew Ellis, Vice President, Professional Services
• Adrian Dams, Vice President, Application Development
• Dave Smith, Vice President, Corporate Marketing
• Don Allen, Vice President, Corporate Communications