VAR Partner for the Food and Beverage.

Swan-Black, an operating affiliate of GS Systems, has been appointed as the first Seeq Master Industry VAR (MIV) partner, specializing in the Food and Beverage industry sectors. This new partnership designation is reserved for select partners that possess the highest level of Seeq maturity and commitment to customer success in a dedicated industry vertical. This advancement is a testament to the fruitful collaboration between Seeq and Swan-Black, acknowledging Swan-Black's unparalleled expertise in this field.

A longstanding certified partner of Seeq with extensive knowledge of Seeq and significant experience across food and beverage, bio-nutrition, and food science domains, Swan-Black is uniquely positioned to deliver substantial benefits and swift returns on investment for their customers. Swan-Black supports some of the largest Food and Beverage manufacturers globally and, as an MIV partner, will broaden its reach within this targeted industry.

“We are thrilled to become Seeq’s Master Industry VAR for the Food and Beverage industry vertical,” says Joseph Gardner, President at Swan-Black. “This recognition validates the positive impact we have on our customers globally. We believe a collaborative partnership, one that combines our Seeq expertise and leverages our knowledge of common process data challenges in the industry, can significantly accelerate our customers’ time to desired outcomes. Whether it’s a challenge related to quality improvement, batch process optimization, or simply lowering the cost of curiosity, Seeq has proven to be an exceptional platform to help solve these problems for our customers.”

Swan-Black has a proprietary, proven customer engagement model, enabling the identification and realization of impactful applications for Seeq. These applications yield tangible results, including cost savings, improved production outcomes, sustainability advancements, and workforce development opportunities for customers. On average, support from Swan-Black's customer success team has enabled customers to realize a threefold ROI increase within one year of using Seeq.

Swan-Black was previously named the 2023 Seeq Partner of the Year – Top Value-Added Reseller and the 2021 and 2022 Seeq Partner of the Year – North America. Additionally, Swan-Black was selected as one of the founding members of the Seeq Partner Advisory Council in 2022, where it continues to play an active role.

“Seeq is pleased to continue our momentum with Swan-Black by appointing them as our first Master Industry VAR,” said Megan Buntain, Chief Market Officer at Seeq. “From significant global account expansions and wins to continued delivery of top-tier customer support, Swan-Black consistently demonstrates the partner excellence required of this new partner designation.”

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IoT and advanced analytics software resellers and partnerships announced.

Seeq Corporation has announced its 2022 Reseller and Service Partners of the Year. These partners have been selected for their excellence in providing value to customers, their continued investments in technical expertise with Seeq-certified employees and training professionals, and for creating awareness for Seeq through collaboration in marketing activities and events.

The 2022 Reseller and Service Partners of the Year were announced at the 2023 Seeq Global Partner Symposium, held in Las Vegas (NV USA) in January 2023. Themed Elevate, Seeq shared Partner Network program updates to enhance partner operations and enablement, led interactive sessions on the company’s unified go-to-market strategy to further accelerate its global growth, and provided networking opportunities with partners and Seeq executive leadership. Attendees heard directly from Seeq leaders, including CEO Dr. Lisa Graham and Chief Revenue Officer George Skaryak.

Seeq advanced analytics SaaS software enables customers to rapidly find, share, and operationalize insights from process data stored on premise or in the cloud. Seeq customers include companies in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, mining, food and beverage, and other process industries. Investors in Seeq include Insight Ventures, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Altira Group, Chevron Technology Ventures, and Cisco Investments.

“In 2022, our global, diverse partner ecosystem empowered our shared customers to solve various advanced analytics use cases across process industries to support their top initiatives for sustainability, digital transformation, and workforce empowerment,” says Nikki Bishop, Chief Customer Officer, including global partnerships, at Seeq. “We are pleased to select six companies that set the standards for excellence in delivering the next generation of process manufacturing improvements as our 2022 Reseller and Service Partners of the Year.”

Resellers of the Year Americas  Swan-Black is the Seeq 2022 Americas Partner of the Year. Swan-Black demonstrates consistent partner excellence with its Seeq-centric customer-success model, significant account expansions and wins, and the addition of Seeq-certified instructors to support Seeq Foundations Training in North America. Swan-Black has expertise across food and beverage, bionutrition, and industrial process-data infrastructure, with a focus on applying advanced analytics to improve business outcomes.  Asia Pacific Nukon is the Seeq 2022 Asia Pacific Partner of the Year. As a third-year recipient of the award, Nukon doubled its Seeq business for a second consecutive year in 2022. With more than a dozen Seeq customers across food and beverage, mining, metals, and materials, utilities, and specialty manufacturing, Nukon delivers exceptional analytics support and insight across a broad spectrum of use cases. Asia Tridiagonal Solutions is the Seeq 2022 Asia Partner of the Year. Tridiagonal has played a pivotal role in supporting Seeq customers through their digital transformation journeys in Asia and throughout the world. With deep expertise in data science, advanced process control, and process manufacturing, Tridiagonal delivers a full suite of solutions and services that drive return on investment for their customers across the process industries. EMEA IT Vizion is the Seeq 2022 EMEA Partner of the Year. IT Vizion was selected for its leadership and domain expertise in the oil and gas industry, which the company has leveraged to scale their Seeq customer base throughout 2022. Additionally, the company’s expertise and support for a variety of technologies for the oil and gas and chemicals industries led to several successful migrations of end users to Seeq.   Latin America Vertix Technologies is the Seeq 2022 Latin America Partner of the Year. Vertix was selected for its commitment to growing Seeq’s presence in the LATAM region, including delivering high-quality training and implementation services to customers. The company provides a variety of digital solutions and services to support digital transformation journeys across the oil and gas, mining, pharmaceutical, and pulp and paper industries. Service Partner of the Year BKO Services LLC is the Seeq 2022 Service Partner of the Year recipient. Supporting Seeq customers such as Marathon Oil, Suncor, TexGen and Shell, BKO’s Seeq-certified partner analytics engineers provide a customer-centric approach, including hands-on analytics engineering support, that yields consistent and valuable customer outcomes. The company provides data engineering and machine learning services for the oil and gas, power, and other process manufacturing industries.

Partner Advisory Council
The event also launched the Seeq Partner Advisory Council (PAC). The PAC will bring together a distinguished and diverse group of global partners to advise on best practices to help Seeq continue to deliver the highest possible value to its partners and customers. 

Members of the Seeq Partner Advisory Council include:

·       Werusys – Köln, Germany

·       Vertix Technologies – Lima, Peru

·       Swan-Black – Brookfield, Wis USA

·       BKO Services – Houston, Texas

·       IT Vizion – Corona, California

·       Tridiagonal Solutions – Pune, India          and San Antonio, Texa,USA

·       Nukon – Melbourne, Australia

The strategic insights gathered from the PAC will directly influence Seeq’s product direction, partner programs, and customer adoption. The Seeq PAC currently consists of seven partners nominated on their tenure and proven commitment to working with Seeq and shared customers. The PAC membership will rotate on an annual basis.

“Seeq’s commitment to providing industry-leading advanced analytics solutions that deliver meaningful insights and accelerate value to customers perfectly aligns with Swan-Black's mission,” says Joseph Gardner, Principal at Swan-Black. “We’re thrilled to join the Seeq Partner Advisory Council in its inaugural year and offer our perspective to help further promote Seeq’s initiatives and drive greater value for our shared customers.”

“The Seeq Partner Advisory Council was created to provide a more direct platform to understand and ensure evolving market, partner, and customer needs are met,” says Dede Davis, Senior Director of Global Partner Development at Seeq. “The continuous dialogue and feedback from the Council will be critical for Seeq to continue building upon our world-class partner program and current technology platform to continue supporting our shared customers’ top initiatives.”

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Champion resellers and service partners!

Seeq Corporation has announced its 2021 Reseller and Service Partners of the Year. These partners have been selected for their excellence in providing value to customers, their continued investments in technical expertise with their Seeq-certified employees and training professionals, and for creating awareness of Seeq through collaboration in marketing activities and events.

Seeq enables engineers and scientists in process manufacturing organizations to rapidly analyze, predict, collaborate, and share insights to improve production outcomes. Seeq customers include companies in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, mining, food and beverage, and other process industries. Investors in Seeq include Insight Ventures, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Altira Group, Chevron Technology Ventures, and Cisco Investments.

In 2021, Seeq announced a $50 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, was recognized by Frost & Sullivan’s North American Technology Innovation Leadership Award for Seeq Data Lab, and expanded its products and capabilities, including support for machine learning innovation.

“We are pleased to select four companies as our 2021 Reseller and Service Partners of the Year,” said Will Knight, Head of Worldwide Partner Sales at Seeq. “These awards recognize the impact these partners have on empowering our customers to create advanced analytics insights, and the standards they have set for excellence in delivering the next generation of process manufacturing improvements.”

Resellers of the Year Asia Pacific Nukon is Seeq’s 2021 Asia Pacific Partner of the Year. Nukon was selected among Seeq’s reselling partners for its focus on customer support and its tremendous growth in the Australian market, more than doubling its revenue over the previous year. The company provides a variety of OT and IT solutions and services to its clients in the consumer goods, infrastructure, utilities, and waste management industries.  “We’re honored to be selected as a Seeq Partner of the Year for the second year running,” says Alec Konynenburg, General Manager at Nukon. “Nukon prides itself on providing the best solutions for clients, and Seeq’s capability allows us to do this through their unique set of offerings. The Nukon and Seeq partnership is built on joint values and commitment to our customers, and we’re excited to continue to provide this value in 2022 and beyond.” Americas  Swan-Black is Seeq’s 2021 Americas Partner of the Year. Swan-Black was selected for its rapid growth in the Americas and globally, and its support for Seeq’s customers in the food and beverage and bioscience industries. Swan-Black has expertise in batch and continuous manufacturing processes, with a focus on applying advanced analytics to improve business outcomes.  “We are incredibly honored to be recognized by Seeq as Partner of the Year for the Americas,” says Joe Gardner, Practice Lead at Swan-Black. “The Seeq solution and the team’s support of our efforts empower us to deliver meaningful process data insights for our customers, leading to increased process efficiency and optimization. We look forward to our continued partnership with Seeq and the value it will bring our customers well into the future.” EMEA Crucial Solutions and Services (CSS) is Seeq’s 2021 EMEA Partner of the Year. CSS was selected for its support and leadership of Seeq’s customers in the Middle East, notably its collaboration on Saudi Aramco’s industrial digitalization initiatives. The company provides a variety of technology offerings to its clients in the oil and gas, petrochemical, and power and utilities industries.  “CSS is dedicated to providing customers with game-changing services and solutions that optimize their efficiency and enhance business growth,” says Sulaiman Alzuhair, Founder and CEO at CSS. “Seeq’s complementary products and capabilities enable CSS to achieve this mission and we are honored to be selected as the Seeq Partner of the Year for EMEA.” Service Partner of the Year BKO Services LLC is Seeq’s first Service Partner of the Year recipient. BKO was selected for its expertise in the oil and gas and power generation industries, its work on Shell’s upstream digital initiatives and Tranter’s use of advanced digital tools to manage its clients’ fleet of heat transfer equipment, and its investment in Seeq-certified employees. In 2021 alone, BKO added five certified partner analytics engineers and one certified instructor to its team. The company provides data engineering, machine learning, and OSIsoft application development services for the oil and gas, power, and other process manufacturing industries.  “As the true value of data analytics and machine learning become more apparent, technology must not only keep pace with the increasing availability of data, but effectively utilize it to improve operations and safety,” says Shaun Wright, CEO of BKO. “We are pleased and proud to be a Seeq partner and part of the radical mindset shift driving this rapidly emerging field of science and technology.”

Seeq’s worldwide growth is fueled in part by its partnerships and commitment to cloud-based computing. Seeq is available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace, is an AWS Industrial and Energy Competency Partner, and supports many data storage services, including Amazon Redshift, S3, plus machine learning in SageMaker, and others.

On Microsoft Azure, Seeq has been available as a SaaS application in the Azure Marketplace since 2019, with support for many Azure cloud services including Synapse, Azure Data Lake, and Active Directory. Seeq also supports connectivity to Azure Data Explorer, Time Series Insights, and Power BI.

In addition to cloud partnerships, Seeq connects to an extensive set of data storage platforms from vendors including OSIsoft, Siemens, GE, Honeywell, Inductive Automation, AVEVA, AspenTech, Yokogawa, InfluxDB, Snowflake, and others.

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Leading partners in advanced analytics solutions.

Seeq has announced the winners of its 2024 Partner of the Year Awards, celebrating top-performing partners across its global ecosystem. These awards recognise outstanding contributions in innovation, customer success, growth, and overall performance using Seeq’s advanced analytics platform to help customers accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. 

 “Each of our partners recognized this year exemplifies the innovation, collaboration, and customer-centric values that define the Seeq Partner Ecosystem,” said Vikram Prakasam, VP of Partnerships and Alliances. “We’re proud to celebrate their achievements in helping industrial organisations accelerate time to insight and realize measurable value from their data.”

2024 Seeq Partner Award Winners

• Partner of the Year – IT Vizion
Recognizing the top-performing partner across all categories.
IT Vizion is a global digitalisation and IT services provider, delivering managed services and operational technology solutions across various industry sectors. Since partnering with Seeq in 2019, IT Vizion has helped clients in the oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals industries maximize the value of their operational data and IT investments. The company drove significant productivity and time savings, led expert deployments, workshops, and trainings to ensure global user adoption, and consistently delivered creative solutions to complex challenges. IT Vizion built a strong pipeline of joint opportunities and generated public references that elevated Seeq’s visibility and credibility in the market.

• Innovation Excellence Award – Amitec
Celebrating creative and forward-thinking implementations and add-on development using Seeq.
Amitec is a leading Nordic software and services company specializing in transforming real-time and historical process data into actionable insights. Since 1996, they’ve provided solutions that bridge the gap between operational and information technology, with a focus on the oil & gas and process industries. As a Seeq partner since 2018, Amitec has taken a creative, agile approach to extending Seeq’s capabilities—developing custom connectors, integrating niche software, and embedding Seeq into third-party applications. These innovations have enabled unified monitoring, centralised analysis, and data-driven decisions, delivering significant production optimisation savings, including hundreds of thousands of dollars for a major pharmaceutical firm.

• Customer Success Champion – Swan-Black
Awarding exceptional results in customer adoption and business value realisation.
Swan-Black, a Seeq Master Industry Value-Added Reseller (MIV) and partner since 2019, is a global leader supporting the food & beverage and food science industry verticals. With more than 35 years of experience in industrial automation, they help organisations access the right data in the right context to drive efficiency and performance insight. Swan-Black is celebrated for their work with leading global brands operating in many global markets, reaching a significant percentage of consumer households. Through the use of their proprietary Customer Success program, Swan-Black has helped customers unlock key insights that help reduce food waste, optimise production processes, minimise downtime, and ensure food safety. Their efforts also enabled thousands of users and have helped organisations identify more than double-digit million in annual savings.

• Rising Star Partner – Tech Curve AI & Innovations
Honouring a new or emerging partner showing remarkable growth and promise.
Tech Curve AI & Innovations, headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, is redefining the future of industrial performance through world-class industry 4.0 consulting. From advanced analytics platforms like Seeq to bespoke AI and machine learning solutions, the company enables smarter, faster decision-making across oil and gas, petrochemicals, energy, and pharmaceutical industries. Since becoming a Seeq partner, Tech Curve has quickly built a strong pipeline and secured the fit new customer in an emerging region. Their deep commitment to the partnership is evident in their strategic team expansion, local brand development efforts, and clear focus on long-term growth and success.

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Partners in advanced analytics and AI recognised.

Seeq has announced its 2023 Partners of the Year. These partners have been recognized for their excellence in providing value to customers, their continued investments in technical expertise with Seeq-certified employees and training professionals, and for creating awareness for Seeq through collaboration in marketing activities and events.

The company delivers a self-service, advanced analytics and industrial AI platform that accesses and leverages vast amounts of historically underused data. By incorporating leading-edge technologies, including AI, machine learning and other capabilities, into its platform and leveraging its global partner network, Seeq powers a range of use cases for employees across the enterprise to accelerate digital transformation outcomes such as operational excellence and profitability, workforce upskilling, and sustainability.

“In 2023, our global, diverse partner ecosystem helped our shared customers scale, empower and maximize access to data to solve operational challenges,” said Megan Buntain, VP of Global Partnerships and Ecosystem. “We congratulate these outstanding partners for their dedication to delivering the next generation of industrial manufacturing improvements, while providing unmatched value to our joint customers.”

Partner of the Year winners are selected from both partner submissions for the Workforce Empowerment, Operational Excellence and Sustainability Changemaker categories, and Seeq nominations for the Rising Star, Training & Adoption, Technology Innovation and Top Value-Added Reseller categories.

The 2023 Seeq Partner of the Year recipients include:

Workforce Empowerment

Crucial Solutions and Services (CSS) is the 2023 Seeq Workforce Empowerment Partner of the Year recipient. CSS was selected for developing scalable training and adoption programs, which the company has leveraged across several customers. Using comprehensive training and engagement planning materials, CSS has helped execute training throughout organizations and maximize value. The company provides a variety of technology offerings to its clients in the oil and gas, petrochemical, and power and utilities industries.

Operational Excellence 

Nukon is a 2023 Seeq Operational Excellence Partner of the Year recipient. A four-year Partner of the Year recipient, Nukon built a comprehensive training program for process engineers and data scientists to easily collaborate and build predictive analytics. Knowledge sharing across the teams led to accelerated Seeq expansion and optimized performance across several assets. With multiple Seeq customers across food and beverage, mining, metals, and materials, utilities, and specialty manufacturing, Nukon delivers exceptional analytics support and insight across a broad spectrum of use cases.

Vertix is a 2023 Seeq Operational Excellence Partner of the Year recipient. Vertix was selected for its dedication to working with customers to grow their Seeq predictive capabilities, resulting in improved decision-making for critical adjustments and increased production efficiency. The company provides a variety of digital solutions and services to support digital transformation journeys across the oil and gas, mining, pharmaceutical, and pulp and paper industries.

Sustainability Changemaker

BKO Services LLC is the 2023 Seeq Sustainability Changemaker Partner of the Year recipient. BKO is recognized for providing a customer-centric approach, including hands-on analytics engineering support, that yields consistent and valuable customer outcomes. In 2023, BKO created real-time monitoring dashboards on critical assets for TexGen that reduced resource usage, resulting in operational efficiency and accelerated sustainability outcomes. The company provides data engineering and machine learning services for the oil and gas, power, and other process manufacturing industries.

Rising Star

e-matica is the 2023 Seeq Rising Star Partner of the Year recipient. e-matica has played a pivotal role in expanding Seeq’s presence in the EMEA region, including hosting regional events that facilitated key customer presentations and networking opportunities. The company provides a variety of digital solutions and services for industrial real-time data management across the pharmaceutical, chemicals, oil & gas, food and energy and utilities industries.

Training & Adoption

Werusys is the 2023 Seeq Training & Adoption Partner of the Year recipient. Werusys was selected for delivering high-quality training and implementation services to customers. Throughout 2023, Werusys completed the most training hours across the Seeq global partner network. The company implements design, development and support of open IT infrastructure solutions for the process industry.

Technology Innovation

Werusys is the 2023 Seeq Technology Innovation Partner of the Year recipient. In 2023, Werusys developed the Werusys PI Vision Suite, a bi-directional integration with AVEVA PI Vision that delivers new data visualizations and widgets, improving workflows and productivity for Werusys and Seeq shared customers.

Top Value-Added Reseller

Swan-Black is the Top Value-Added Reseller Partner of the Year recipient. Swan-Black demonstrates consistent partner excellence with significant global account expansions and wins and continued delivery of top-tier customer support. Swan-Black has expertise across food and beverage, bionutrition, and industrial process-data infrastructure, with a focus on applying advanced analytics to improve business outcomes.

Seeq’s global growth is accelerating through ecosystem partnerships and commitment to cloud-based computing. Seeq is available worldwide through a global partner network of cloud service providers and system integrators, which provides training and other value-added services in addition to resale support for Seeq in over 40 countries.

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CO2 Gas Sensors assess COVID-19 transmission risk.

COVID-19 has been an unpredictable black swan in 2020 and the second wave in Europe indicates that we might need to live with the pandemic for a long time. Although the development of a vaccine has had a landmark breakthrough, any vaccine will not be widespread quickly and there is still the opportunity for the virus to mutate and become seasonal. While widespread mass testing has been a central focus for governments for months, societies are now facing another question: how can the risk be assessed and how can the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 be prevented in the community.

Although the transmission routes for the SARS-CoV-2 are still debatable, there is increasing scientific evidence suggesting that long-range aerosol-based transmission might play an important role. How to assess and control the aerosol concentration are becoming the most critical measures for infection control. Due to the close link of the indoor CO₂ concentration and aerosol density, using CO₂ gas sensors to monitor the indoor environment can be an efficient method to control the COVID-19 outbreak. The German government is among the first to invest in this technology, installing CO₂ gas sensors in schools. These sensors indicate when the air in the room is unhealthily stale.

The Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Associations (REHVA) has also published guidance for schools to install a CO₂ monitoring system with traffic light indication.

Examples of CO2 monitors with traffic light indicator showing the indoor air quality. Source: The Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Associations (REHVA)

While electrochemical gas sensors and metal oxide semiconductor gas sensors are cheaper and smaller, NDIR gas sensors are more reliable and sensitive for CO₂ monitoring. The IDTechEx report “Environmental Gas Sensors 2020-2030”, benchmarks the performance, cost and manufacturing maturity for various gas sensing technologies. Infineon launched new  CO₂ environmental sensors based on photoacoustic technology. This new product is believed to perform at a similar level as NDIR gas sensors at a significantly lower cost. 

Director at Infineon, Mr Hicham Riffi, told IDTechEx that they have received a considerable demand for implementing traffic light CO2 sensors in schools and offices. Photoacoustic-based CO₂ gas sensors are also provided by Sensirion. They are also aware of the increasing demand for such CO₂ gas sensors for HVAC systems and indoor air quality applications.

This new trend will boost the potential market for CO₂ gas sensors. IDTechEx predicts that over 50K gas sensors will be installed in Germany alone in 2021 and the demand for  CO₂ gas sensors globally will exceed 1 million units if other European countries and the new US government will decide to follow the same path.

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