ICONICS Facility Analytics Improves the Environment

OROUGH, MA - October 15, 2008 - Today, ICONICS, a 2008Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of the Year and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based,HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for MicrosoftWindows(r) operating systems, announced its new Facility Analytics(tm) facility-basedanalytical tool.Facility Analytics is part of the ICONICS BizViz(tm) Analytics family of software andprovides a set of pre-configured, out-of-the-box reports and data mining tools toassist facility managers in decision-making. The new analytical offering will workbest when combined with ICONICS' new FacilityWorX(tm) facility-based visualization andcontrol solution. Such analytical reports can focus on reducing costs, optimizing load factors,decreasing fault response times or achieving overall better efficiency. Data can beprovided throughout a facility from various systems and devices including standardenvironmental control, building automation systems (BAS), power/energy management,backup power/UPS/power generation, chillers, boiler/furnaces, security/accesscontrol/video, and fire alarms, just to name a few."Facility Analytics offers actionable intelligence that helps customers make betterdecisions for the future," said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. "Thisinformation will allow users to reduce energy consumption, aggregate and summarizeenergy usage by location, and forecast energy costs over time. Facility managershave been waiting for a tool that will help provide detailed insight into how theirfacility truly functions."Due to the skyrocketing costs of energy, the need for such a solution has never beengreater. Facility Analytics helps companies to become more "green" and reduce theiroverall carbon footprint through optimizations made to energy consumption. It canalso assist companies in meeting LEED (Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesign) standards for the operation of green buildings."Facility Managers require additional analytical and reporting tools to assist themin making critical decisions that can have major repercussions on both managingenergy costs as well as monitoring and controlling security," said Craig Resnick,Research Director at ARC Advisory Group. "For these analytical tools to be mosteffective, they must have the capability to analyze the multiple sources of datathat are required to help run an entire facility as well as to embrace a high levelof collaboration between systems that combine visualization, alarm management,scheduling, reporting and analysis. Facility Analytics appears to meet thiscollaboration capability objective, especially when leveraged with FacilityWorX andother ICONICS software solutions."ICONICS solutions are widely recognized in the industrial automation softwaremarketplace. Used in a wide variety of applications worldwide, ICONICS' GENESIS64(tm),BizViz and GENESIS32(tm) products are recognized for their graphical capabilities andseamless integration with Microsoft operating systems and applications, bridginginformation from "the shop floor to the top floor."ICONICS has provided award-winning industrial automation and ManufacturingIntelligence software for over 22 years, successfully deploying more than 225,000solutions worldwide. ICONICS Background InformationFounded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrialautomation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft(r) Windows(r) operatingsystems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based componentsand products, GENESIS32(tm) Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XPProfessional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server2003 x64. Pocket GENESIS(tm) for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground upbased on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core(tm) framework. BizViz(tm) is a suite of manufacturingand business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing andcorporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NETtechnology and Microsoft SharePoint Services.. ICONICS also offers a complete set ofPlug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX(r) Controls,OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server(r)-based datalogging, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner represented in over 60countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.(c) 2008 ICONICS, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to changewithout notice. GENESIS64, GENESIS32, Pocket GENESIS, BizViz and their respectivemodules, OPC-To-The-Core, and Visualize Your Enterprise are trademarks of ICONICSInc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of theirrespective owners.

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