Matrikon Launches Free Information Visualization Software: Matrikon Operational Insight Lite

HOUSTON, June 25, 2007 – Matrikon, the world’s leader in information visualization technology, is pleased to announce the release of Matrikon™ Operational Insight Lite, a software tool to acquire, display, and analyze process data from both real-time and historical data sources.

Matrikon Operational Insight Lite, available for download from Matrikon’s web site at no cost, is based on Matrikon's award-winning visualization and decision support software, Matrikon Operational Insight. Matrikon Operational Insight Lite enables operations, engineering, and maintenance personnel to build and view insightful trends, process graphics and KPI dashboards from their desktop PCs.

To access this free visualization tool
please visit Operational-Insight

“People must often provide a business case to justify expensive tools to management, even to resolve simple questions,” says Pablo Asiron, Matrikon Operational Insight product manager. “To remove barriers between people and the answers they need, we decided to offer this tool at no cost for anyone to use… for as long as they want!”

Key features of Matrikon Operational Insight Lite include:

Connectivity to multiple OPC data sources
Standards-based access to real-time (OPC DA) and historical (HDA) data
Powerful trending support including ad-hoc analysis
Instant export to popular data formats such as Microsoft Excel
Complete graphics editing with easy-to-use wizards
Rich symbol library with over 3,000 high-quality components

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About Matrikon

Matrikon is a leading provider of industrial intelligence solutions that enable manufacturing plants to achieve operational excellence by transforming production data into knowledge to predict and prevent problems and optimize operations. Matrikon's customers achieve agile operations through the combination of external market and plant data to make informed, intelligent decisions in real-time. With offices in major cities throughout North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East and a global client base including industry leaders in a wide range of process industries, Matrikon's reach is global. www.matrikon.com
Matrikon is a trademark or registered trademark of Matrikon Inc
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For more information, contact:
Pablo Asiron
Matrikon Operational Insight Product Manager
Email: pablo.asiron@matrikon.com
Telephone: 1-780-945-4046
www.matrikon.com/Operational-insight
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