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Essentials

The IoT foundation for cloud application success

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Industrial engineers using Predix Essentials from GE Digital

What is Essentials?

Essentials is the IoT cornerstone of select GE Digital applications, providing a complete package of core Platform functions to power your solution. It’s everything you need – from IT/OT connectivity to analytics processing to base application features – ready to power rapid and sustained industrial application value.

 

Essentials in Action

Connect

Essentials provides secure and reliable IT/OT data connectivity and cloud transfer from equipment, sensors, HMI/SCADA, and historians, as well as IT systems and sources such as EAM/CMMS. Over 200 protocols are supported by direct-to-cloud collectors or the Edge appliance. Pre-built and custom collectors support IBM, SAP and other systems.

Process

Essentials supports streaming and batch data ingestion and near real-time or scheduled analytics processing. Analytics orchestration and execution management tools provide the flexibility to support GE Digital Twin application analytics as well customer-developed analytics. On-premises, Edge supports customer-developed container-based apps or analytics.

Analyze and act

Essentials includes standard user experience and base application functions common to many GE Digital SaaS applications. Fully embedded application functions include: dashboarding and visualizations, interactive analysis, policy workflow engine, alerting, case management and more.

Planning for today, preparing for tomorrow

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Security & scalability

Essentials is designed to ensure edge-to-cloud security, compliance, and scalability. A hardened edge appliance, encrypted data transfer, enhanced cloud security, and a proven, high-scale data processing and analytics fabric are managed 24X7 by IT and security operations specialists.

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Value today and tomorrow

Essentials packages the power of the Predix IoT Platform to be the foundation of your GE Digital applications-based solutions. Your  Essentials investment can be leveraged across multiple GE Digital applications, while also supporting your future growth and solution extensions.

Enabling APM and OPM results

Asset Performance Management and Operations Performance Management software

Essentials is the IoT cornerstone of GE Digital applications, providing a complete package of core  Platform functions to power your solution. It’s everything you need – from IT/OT connectivity to analytics processing to base application features – ready to power rapid and sustained industrial application value.

 

Our customers tell it best

We're proud of the success our customers have achieved. Read their stories.

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    CENAL’s Karabiga Steam Power Plant

    Achieves more than 700K USD annual savings with GE Digital Boiler Optimizer

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    Digitization at the service of predictive maintenance

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    Avoids potential productivity losses with Asset Performance Management

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    TATA Power

    Implements GE Digital Asset Performance Management across 15 sites and 6,000 mission critical assets

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