PI integration

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The Challenge: Separating Analytical and Operational Load

Your analytical workloads are growing. PI still needs to support the operation.

1. Analytical reads share operational resources

Additional tools and users increase demand on the PI environment. Repeated historical extracts and exploratory queries need to be planned alongside collection, dashboards, and alerts.

2. Teams need broader historical access

Feature preparation and investigation may need detailed observations across assets, sites, and long periods, together with their operational context.

3. Data transfers need clear behavior

Live updates, historical imports, and corrections must reach the analytical dataset consistently. The integration needs an explicit refresh and recovery strategy.

Give operational and analytical workloads a clear role.

● How the integration works

PI for operations.
Quasar for analytics.

PI remains the operational system of record. An agreed data feed supplies Quasar with the observations and context needed for analytical workloads.

Quasar retains and serves that analytical dataset. This can reduce repeated analytical reads against PI, while the transfer itself is sized and validated for the source environment.

A controlled feed.
A separate analytical workload.

What stays with PI

  • PI remains authoritative for the operational data it manages
  • Continue using Asset Framework, PI Vision, and established operational workflows
  • Validate source-system load and any required configuration changes during integration

What Quasar provides

  • A queryable analytical dataset supplied by the agreed PI feed
  • Queries across retained history, assets, and sites
  • Numerical data storage with lossless compression
  • SQL and API access for feature preparation and analytical applications
  • A separate environment for analytical queries and experimentation

Define which observations and context are transferred, how frequently they refresh, how historical data is imported, and how corrections and retries are handled. Specify whether any derived results return to PI.

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