Discrete manufacturers face several barriers that must be overcome to make their operations fully visible. The greatest of these barriers are the heterogeneous operating environment and the inability to see and query necessary information effectively across this heterogeneity.

Most companies have fragmented and disconnected IT silos. Total visibility to necessary operational information, inside and outside of the company, has been elusive, leading to lost business opportunity and decreased return on assets. There has been no easy way to anticipate rapidly changing customer demands and exposure to unforeseen risks. Examples where discrete manufacturers need greater visibility to their operations include dependency analysis, root cause analysis and predictive analysis.

As a solution to these challenges, Cogito delivers a unique product that integrates disparate data sources into a naturally modeled view of the manufacturing process, leveraging the data management capabilities of current systems while overcoming their limitations. Companies now have a powerful way to access information and see accurate operational paths for better visualization and business analytics, enabling them to model and track complex manufacturing relationships. They can quickly understand critical dependencies in operations, determine root causes of seemingly random events, and see emerging trends with their potential future impact.

Cogito's unique solution, the Cogito Knowledge Center ingests tables of data from relational databases into a naturally linked web of information and all associated relationships. The Cogito Knowledge Center also provides an ideal data structure, serving as a manifold for connecting, extracting and relating stovepipes of internal data with external data. Information is thus transparent across the entire manufacturing operation.