SAN FRANCISCO - October 21, 2014 - Splunk LLC (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, and Kepware Technologies, developer of software solutions for Industrial Automation and Controls, today announced the availability of Kepware’s Industrial Data Forwarder (IDF) for Splunk. The forwarder, a plug-in for the widely deployed KEPServerEX® platform, enables customers to send industrial data from sensors, devices and control systems to Splunk® Enterprise and Splunk Cloud™.
Splunk users can easily collect, search and analyze industrial data to improve operations, accelerate troubleshooting, perform preventative maintenance, strengthen security posture and improve productivity. The integration between Splunk Enterprise and KEPServerEX breaks down the industrial data and IT data silos to deliver new real-time insights that were previously unavailable. The solution enables easily configured access to the data produced by devices including PLCs, RTUs, PACs, DAQs and legacy controllers, communicating via more than 150 proprietary industrial protocols.
“The combination of Splunk’s machine data platform and Kepware’s Industrial Data Forwarder opens up a new frontier in analyzing industrial data,” said Tapan Bhatt, vice president of business analytics, Splunk. “Industrial data holds great promise for a diverse range of industries including automotive, manufacturing and oil and gas. With Splunk and Kepware, these organizations have a new way to easily collect, correlate and explore industrial data at scale.”
“Kepware’s solutions represent the backbone of industrial data collection across a variety of industries,” said Brett Austin, president, Kepware Technologies. “As customers demand deeper insights from this data, our alliance with Splunk provides a unique and turnkey big data analytics solution to address their growing needs.”
“Given the diversity of devices and the variety of protocols in the Internet of Things market, getting insights from industrial systems has historically been a challenge to scale,” said Vernon Turner, senior vice president, IDC. “The combination of Splunk and Kepware creates an interesting alliance that ties industrial systems communications expertise together with a secure and scalable data collection, storage and analytics platform.”
To learn more about how to integrate Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud with industrial data and the Internet of Things, please visit http://www.splunk.com/iot. To download Kepware’s Industrial Data Forwarder (IDF) for Splunk Plug-In, please visit http://info.kepware.com/idf-for-splunk.
Kepware Technologies is a private software development company headquartered in Portland, Maine. Kepware provides a portfolio of software solutions to help businesses connect diverse automation devices and software applications. From plant floor to wellsite to windfarm, Kepware serves a wide range of customers in a variety of international vertical markets including Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Building Automation, Power Distribution, and more. Established in 1995 and now distributed in more than 100 countries, Kepware's software solutions help thousands of businesses improve operations and decision making.
Learn more at www.kepware.com, and take an inside look at the company and its culture through the Kepware Corporate Overview video available here.
Splunk LLC (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence. Splunk® software and cloud services enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices. More than 7,900 enterprises, government agencies, universities and service providers in 100 countries use Splunk software to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce cost. Splunk products include Splunk® Enterprise, Splunk Cloud™, Hunk®, Splunk MINT Express™ and premium Splunk Apps. To learn more, please visit http://www.splunk.com/company.
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