Trust can be a giant deal-breaker for any relationship. It doesn't matter if it's who should watch your dog when you go on vacation, who you should marry, who babysits your kids, or who you should trust your company data with; it matters big time to you because it impacts you as a person. Broken trust can quickly turn the relationship into something completely unrecognizable in a heartbeat.
A giant part of building trust with anyone is 'seeing' who they really are after you've known them a long time. A very wise person once told me "When someone shows you who they are, believe them."
We totally understand that addressing who you should entrust your data, SaaS and SCADA system to can be a very difficult decision, and one that should not be taken lightly.
When you considering starting or expanding your company's digital transformation with an IIoT platform to reduce costs or to collect and manage remotely located asset data, you’re on track to becoming more efficient and making more-informed decisions. To get the most out of those decisions it’s important to know who you’re partnering with—to make sure you can trust that company not only with your data security, continue development for added insights and analytics, but also trust that they'll be around in the future.
We've all heard some horrible endings to business relationships because of lack of funding into development and how that quickly pressed smaller software, IIoT platforms, applications, or SCADA companies into total destruction, and then your historical data is gone as well as your hopes of providing your team with the analytics and insights they need to gain stronger focus on your core business, increased safety for all, and deliver sustainability to your organization. Then you've also lost the time involved, money, budget spent and worst case; all of your data. This quickly went from a win-win relationship to a total loss.
You’re looking for two main things: First, that the company you choose will be around for the long haul and second, that they have the resources to grow as you and your needs expand. Your main goal is to make your staff more efficient by giving them the right data to anticipate and prevent issues, and to gain insights that can pay off in big dividends through better-informed decisions.
For example: If you switch to a small startup, they may start off with great enthusiasm and performance. But the hard fact is that 90% of new businesses fail in the first five years. While it’s true that everyone was a startup at some time, how will you know which IIoT platform, SaaS, or SCADA company will be successful? Question if they will successfully provide you what you need for connectivity, support, analytics, data, security and what tomorrow may bring for new technology; after all this is your organizations sustainability at stake. You have a one-in-ten chance of guessing right.
And even if they do succeed, will they have the capital—in dollars and in humans—to grow with you? Either you’re starting with limited data collection and planning to add more sensors as you go along, or you’re looking to expand operations. Both of those options require your provider to expand as your needs do. Can a new company keep up?
Longevity is Security
The future of your data could be insecure. If your provider suddenly goes under, what happens to your data? Or if they can’t keep up with your expansion, will that overload and crash their system, as your priceless data explodes into cyberspace?
Also, it can take time to establish systems to manage what we already think of as security—data breaches and data loss due to storms or natural events. Can you afford to have questions about your data safety while a new company works that out?
Proven Provider
We trace our software, IIoT and data roots back for decades. Over those years we’ve learned more about gathering data and mining it for dividends than most companies in the world—especially new ones. And we’ve proven we’re around for the long haul and with extensive security systems in place with constant monitoring and upgrades, and we're always updating our system for the latest and great advances; everything from MQTT to machine learning and autonomous operations. Your data is encrypted and secured with multi-factor authentication and layers of security. It’s ready for you and your authorized people to access and no one else.
We're experts in IIoT and delivering you the analytics you need, the valuable insights and the security you need; today and tomorrow, while ready to expand as your operations need and keep up with anything tomorrow brings for new, better and advanced technology that will enable your continued increases in profits, productivity, safety and sustainability.
