Software, hardware short takes

Altair’s RapidMiner converged platform. Aperio DataWise 2.0. ArrayFire Quantum Simulator. AspenTech DataWorks unit. Bluware’s InteractiveAI 4. East Daley Analytics’ Energy Data Studio. EnergyMarketPrice announces Prophet AI Prognosis. Element Analytics’ Unify 5.0. Getech new Exploration Analyst/Data Assistant releases. New Grapher from Golden Software. Ikon updates Curate, RokDoc. Kongsberg Digital launches ‘Industrial Work Surface’. Caliper’s Maptitude 2023/Online. Optime Subsea’s eSCILS deployed. Eliis’ Paleoscan 2022.2. Canonical releases real time Ubuntu. New ResInight from Ceetron. Siemens Field Data Enablement portfolio. Volume Graphics’ VGStudio Max. WellDatabase 23.1.

Altair has announced Altair RapidMiner a ‘converged platform’ for data analytics and artificial intelligence. The announcement follows the 2022 acquisitions of RapidMiner and World Programming. The platform is available via the Altair Units licensing program and includes APIs for SAS, Python, R and SQL.

Aperio DataWise 2.0 helps plant users ‘accelerate their data quality improvement journey’ with intelligent automation, data quality metrics, root cause analysis and early detection of asset health.

ArrayFire has released the open source ArrayFire Quantum Simulator (AQS). AQS is a C++14 library that provides the functionality to create, manipulate, visualize, and simulate quantum circuits with quick and accurate results. The library is built upon the ArrayFire Tensor library For GPUs.

Following its acquisition of Inmation Software last year, AspenTech has opened a new DataWorks business unit to offer a combination of the Aspen AIoT Hub and the Inmation solutions. DataWorks promises vendor-neutral connectivity to all major OT and IT interfaces, centralized data governance and integration with advanced analytics, decision support and AI.

Bluware’s InteractiveAI 4 enables geoscientists to employ binary or multi-class networks to capture a range of geologic features, from simple stratigraphic or structural frameworks, to more complex facies distributions.

East Daley Analytics’ new Energy Data Studio provides midstream data including crude oil and natural gas production forecasts for North America. More from EDA.

EnergyMarketPrice has announced Prophet AI Prognosis a ‘revolutionary digital solution’ that uses advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze historical data, identify patterns, and forecast future trends. This tool is claimed to help optimize operations, reduce costs and improve the bottom line.

Element AnalyticsUnify 5.0 includes a new Time Series Data Mover that streamlines the movement of industrial data to the cloud. The solution includes a connector for PI data import and an export function to AWS RedShift.

Getech has released ArcGIS Pro 3 compatible versions of its Exploration Analyst and Data Assistant software products. ArcGIS Pro 3.0 required an update to Microsoft .NET 6 meaning that Getech’s tools needed the update to remain compatible. More from Getech.

The latest iteration of Golden Software’s Grapher package for visualizing and analyzing diverse data sets improves the user experience with redesigned functions and a more intuitive interface. The package promises insights into chemical, physical, geologic, and geospatial datasets with some 80 2D and 3D plots. Golden has also updated its Surfer contouring package with new 3D subsurface visualization functionality. More from Golden.

The 2023.2 release of Ikon Science’s Curate subsurface knowledge management software includes a dataset preview option, color-coded wells on map views and an upgraded search and filter function in the data explorer. Enhanced administration allows teams to work collaboratively and share data ‘effortlessly’. Ikon has also released RokDoc 2023.2, with added functionality for machine learning, rock physics and new visualization measurement tools. The new release includes extreme gradient boost (XGB) algorithms for regression and classification. More from Ikon Science.

Kongsberg Digital has launched the ‘Industrial Work Surface’ for carbon-intensive industries, enabling the company’s software users to work within a single digital environment. IWS reduces siloed access to data to achieve better ways of working and ‘smarter, safer and greener operations’. The solution combines Kongsberg Digital’s domain and technology expertise in a ‘single end-to-end user surface’. IWS received an endorsement from James Maguire, business transformation manager at LNG Canada who said, ‘IWS [makes for] a new way of working that will enable our teams to learn from past events, predict future events, and prescribe a path forward to optimize production and equipment performance. The IWS the cornerstone of our future ambitions.’

Caliper’s Maptitude 2023 and Maptitude Online introduce new features and datasets, updated demographics, and cloud-based tools for territory creation and routing optimization. More on Maptitude in oil and gas.

Optime Subsea’s electric controls and intervention light system eSCILS has completed its first operation for Aker BP at the Alvheim field, Norway. eSCILS, an upgrade of Optime Subsea’s original system, is umbilical-less, battery-powered and wireless. Aker BP VP drilling Mads Rødsjø commented, ‘By going from SCILS to eSCILS, we have taken further steps of enabling digital transformation, simplification, cost reduction and defining the future of subsea operations’.

EliisPaleoscan 2022.2 includes Bluware VDS volume data management, streaming seismic data across local and cloud-based systems including the OSDU data platform.

Canonical has announced the general availability of real time Ubuntu. Real-time Ubuntu provides a deterministic response to an external event, with a guaranteed response time. The new enterprise-grade real-time kernel targets industrial, telecommunications, and other use cases.

The 2023.03 release of Ceetron Solutions’ ResInsight open source fluid flow simulator includes radial grids, improvements to multi segment wells and time-variant well allocation. More from ResInsight.

Siemens new Field Data Enablement portfolio promises to make ‘unused’ field data accessible to the IT department, ‘making manufacturing companies more efficient and future-proof’. FDE can be deployed without interrupting production and no additional sensors are required. The solution is available in software and/or hardware.

Hexagon’s Volume Graphics unit has released VGStudio Max for pore-scale permeability simulations on data such as CT scans of porous or multi-component materials. Virtual flow and diffusion experiments are used to calculate homogenized material properties such as absolute permeability, tortuosity, formation factor and more. Volume Graphics 2023.1 now includes enhanced AI/ML functionality. More from Volume Graphics.

The 23.1 release of WellDatabase’s eponymous oil and gas public data platform sports enhanced functionalities and an entirely new appearance. The release brings additions to its analytics, advanced filtering options, exposed through customizable dashboards, ‘offering a better way for oil and gas professionals to gain insight into publicly reported data’. More from WellDatabase.

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